Tax to save the planet

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/...

useless people said:

The speed limit on all motorways should be strictly enforced and may have to be reduced to 60mph to help to meet the Government’s legally binding carbon reduction targets.

Seriously, WHY must they try to piss us the motorists off, constantly, 24/7, without fail.

EDIT: Not sure if this was already posted before

Edited by rypt on Monday 12th October 21:43

[Jasandjules]

Read the important bit, "strictly enforced" - i.e. loads more cameras therefore = more tax. This would be needed to compensate for the loss of fuel revenue.........

[Elysium]

Jasandjules said:

Read the important bit, "strictly enforced" - i.e. loads more cameras therefore = more tax. This would be needed to compensate for the loss of fuel revenue.........

If the government was truly interested in reducing global CO2 emissions, they could just invest a proportion of current fuel and road tax in energy saving projects.

We should be tackling CO2 emissions based on cost per tonne of CO2 averted. I have no doubt at all that this would be one of the most expensive and least efficient options available.

[Guybrush]

The government is making a big assumption that CO2 affects the climate in the way they say it does - and thousands of scientists doubt it does. Anyway, even if CO2 did have such an effect, the 3% that man contributes to the 0.038% currently in the atmosphere is miniscule (and bear in mund that cars contribute a fraction of that 3%). It's almost as if the whole thing was a tax-raising excuse.