Diesel Scrappage scheme?
Discussion
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/2...
Anyone want to guess what kind of anti-diesel stuff there will be in the plan?
Anyone want to guess what kind of anti-diesel stuff there will be in the plan?
suomy said:
Like people have already said this scheme is to try and drum up industry, playing the pollution card to try and get people onborad. Petrol is harmful to the environment and diesel is harmful to humans. If governments were more concerned about the pollution than the industry they would still be offering scrapage schemes on petrol engine cars.
The fact that this will increase the demand for new cars will ultimately create an increase in industry emmissions caused by the increase in manufacturing and scrapping of old cars so pollution wise we are no better off.
Once the media has moved on to something else and the scheme has been and gone people will just go back to running diesels and petrols like they always have.
In what way is petrol harmful to the environment (as opposed to diesel)?The fact that this will increase the demand for new cars will ultimately create an increase in industry emmissions caused by the increase in manufacturing and scrapping of old cars so pollution wise we are no better off.
Once the media has moved on to something else and the scheme has been and gone people will just go back to running diesels and petrols like they always have.
There should be a new scrappage scheme introduced immediately. Electric cars. Scrap them first and ban any car from the road that does more than 10 miles per gallon. Petrol should then be £45.00 per gallon and drivers of these 10MPG cars should be knighted for their services to the treasury. If someone wishes to drive a vehicle that does say 60 mpg they must obtain permission and pay £5,000 per year in road tax and possibly even have a machine fitted that fires out a £5.00 note every 2 miles. If this was introduced petrolheads would have more fun, people would live closer to work and spend money in their local shops and the roads would be clearer.
When diesels first became popular in the mid '80s lots of petrol stations didn't even have a diesel pump. One had to go in search of a diesel pump, queue behind a forty footer for 9 hours, then stand in a puddle of oil, remove one's shoes and throw them away and then smell like the Amoco Cadiz for the next week. To show other motorists that you had a diesel you had to overtake them (if possible) and then cover them in black soot like something from a Bond movie. Diesels were the automotive Anti-Christ.
Mobile phones were shown in a poor light, so doubtless this will come round again anytime soon in the media."Research has shown that a mouse using Whatsapp for 5 months continuously has grown an ear on its back"
When diesels first became popular in the mid '80s lots of petrol stations didn't even have a diesel pump. One had to go in search of a diesel pump, queue behind a forty footer for 9 hours, then stand in a puddle of oil, remove one's shoes and throw them away and then smell like the Amoco Cadiz for the next week. To show other motorists that you had a diesel you had to overtake them (if possible) and then cover them in black soot like something from a Bond movie. Diesels were the automotive Anti-Christ.
Mobile phones were shown in a poor light, so doubtless this will come round again anytime soon in the media."Research has shown that a mouse using Whatsapp for 5 months continuously has grown an ear on its back"
Edited by The Motorist on Saturday 29th April 13:35
The Motorist said:
There should be a new scrappage scheme introduced immediately. Electric cars. Scrap them first and ban any car from the road that does more than 10 miles per gallon. Petrol should then be £45.00 per gallon and drivers of these 10MPG cars should be knighted for their services to the treasury. If someone wishes to drive a vehicle that does say 60 mpg they must obtain permission and pay £5,000 per year in road tax and possibly even have a machine fitted that fires out a £5.00 note every 2 miles. If this was introduced petrolheads would have more fun, people would live closer to work and spend money in their local shops and the roads would be clearer.
When diesels first became popular in the mid '80s lots of petrol stations didn't even have a diesel pump. One had to go in search of a diesel pump, queue behind a forty footer for 9 hours, then stand in a puddle of oil, remove one's shoes and throw them away and then smell like the Amoco Cadiz for the next week. To show other motorists that you had a diesel you had to overtake them (if possible) and then cover them in black soot like something from a Bond movie. Diesels were the automotive Anti-Christ.
Mobile phones were shown in a poor light, so doubtless this will come round again anytime soon in the media."Research has shown that a mouse using Whatsapp for 5 months continuously has grown an ear on its back"
How droll.When diesels first became popular in the mid '80s lots of petrol stations didn't even have a diesel pump. One had to go in search of a diesel pump, queue behind a forty footer for 9 hours, then stand in a puddle of oil, remove one's shoes and throw them away and then smell like the Amoco Cadiz for the next week. To show other motorists that you had a diesel you had to overtake them (if possible) and then cover them in black soot like something from a Bond movie. Diesels were the automotive Anti-Christ.
Mobile phones were shown in a poor light, so doubtless this will come round again anytime soon in the media."Research has shown that a mouse using Whatsapp for 5 months continuously has grown an ear on its back"
Edited by The Motorist on Saturday 29th April 13:35
Somewhatfoolish said:
Why should right-thinking petrol driving taxpayers have to subsidise diseasal audi driving reps? The dirtiness of diesels has always been apparent to anyone who cared to look.
If fiscal policy has to be used for this then it should be done by massively increasing VED on old diesel cars - in a revenue neutral manner by massively lowering that paid by high capacity petrol car drivers like myself.
Excellent idea, trouble is it's too fair ! Will be touted as an attack on those who can't afford it, swiftly followed by a call to tax the RangeRovers, Rolls Royces etc even though there's proportionately small amount on the road, oh, and there pretty clean already 🙁If fiscal policy has to be used for this then it should be done by massively increasing VED on old diesel cars - in a revenue neutral manner by massively lowering that paid by high capacity petrol car drivers like myself.
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