EU trying to ban older cars
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Seen on a different forum.
'Just discovered that there is a consultation/proposal at UK/EU level to restrict and/or ban the use of older (10 years plus) cars. There is already a petition to the British Prime Minister to reject such proposals. Might I suggest that many of us (not just in the 928 section) might be affected and therefore might consider signing? Just when I was beginning to enjoy my car.....'
Tw@s, the lot of them.
Edited by s2art on Wednesday 2nd May 20:42
Edited by s2art on Wednesday 2nd May 20:43
So let's get this straight, the London to Brighton run would be illegal because all the classic and historic cars would have to be scrapped?
"But they're classics, so they're ok", the EU will say.
Ok, but my 11 year-old Corrado VR6 is a "modern classic" as is my 10 year-old TVR Chimaera 500. Should they be scrapped too? Or saved?
It's such bollockry anyway - everyone knows that the cost to the environment of running an old car is infinitesimal compared to the cost to the environment of scrapping it and building a replacement car.
"But they're classics, so they're ok", the EU will say.
Ok, but my 11 year-old Corrado VR6 is a "modern classic" as is my 10 year-old TVR Chimaera 500. Should they be scrapped too? Or saved?
It's such bollockry anyway - everyone knows that the cost to the environment of running an old car is infinitesimal compared to the cost to the environment of scrapping it and building a replacement car.
Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 2nd May 21:26
It's like this...
A vet in Germany has a poorly hamster bought in. The vet traces the source of the hamsters illness to the paint used on its hamster wheel. The vet reports this to the authorities, and they look into quite wisely implementing a law to prohibit the use of this toxic paint on hamster wheels. The German media report that hamster wheels are being banned (at least, thats the implied headline, the detail is there about it just being a certain type of toxic paint that is to be banned, not actually hamster wheels, but nobody bothers to read that bit). The story then comes to the UK, the British media report in a frenzy that the EU is about to ban hamsters (the bit about toxic paint and wheels is not even mentioned). This causes uproar in the UK, and so a petiton protesting about the banning of hamsters is set up, and links are posted up on hamster websites, to get as many signatures as possible. A link is also posted on Pistonheads, and many believe that this is a genuine threat to Teds power source, pledges to sign are made.
And that is how we get from a proposal to clear the city centre of traffic on a maximum of 35 days a year when pollution levels are at an extreme high in a couple of southern German towns to the hysterical and untrue headline of 'EU to ban classic cars'.
Edinburgh are 'considering' it. Yeah, and i'm 'considering' buying 365 Supercars, one for every day of the year.
A vet in Germany has a poorly hamster bought in. The vet traces the source of the hamsters illness to the paint used on its hamster wheel. The vet reports this to the authorities, and they look into quite wisely implementing a law to prohibit the use of this toxic paint on hamster wheels. The German media report that hamster wheels are being banned (at least, thats the implied headline, the detail is there about it just being a certain type of toxic paint that is to be banned, not actually hamster wheels, but nobody bothers to read that bit). The story then comes to the UK, the British media report in a frenzy that the EU is about to ban hamsters (the bit about toxic paint and wheels is not even mentioned). This causes uproar in the UK, and so a petiton protesting about the banning of hamsters is set up, and links are posted up on hamster websites, to get as many signatures as possible. A link is also posted on Pistonheads, and many believe that this is a genuine threat to Teds power source, pledges to sign are made.
And that is how we get from a proposal to clear the city centre of traffic on a maximum of 35 days a year when pollution levels are at an extreme high in a couple of southern German towns to the hysterical and untrue headline of 'EU to ban classic cars'.
Edinburgh are 'considering' it. Yeah, and i'm 'considering' buying 365 Supercars, one for every day of the year.
mybrainhurts said:
Balmoral Green said:
It's like this...wolf.
Can't share your confidence, BG...not when Eurocrats are heard to say things such as cars are socially devisive, we must work to eliminate them...
What bleeding planet are they on... cars have probably done more for social inclusion than any other invention, by giving everybody equal dibs on mobility.
mybrainhurts said:
True or not, not worth the risk...time to depart the EU
Time to take off and nuke Brussels from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Jderh said:
But where would the cars go?? surely disposing of them would cause much more enviromental harm than these cars ever will in their lifetime??
Perhaps they could be rammed four square at the gates of Downing Street, perhaps our political masters would get the message; which would be more than could be said for the busy idiots (of which there are plenty on this site) in favour of the EU (superstate).
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