It's your job to defend the high powered car........
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After a series of triumphant performances in the leadership debates by Natalie Bennett, confounding all expectations, the Green party win General election with a convincing majority. One of their first announcements is to ban the sale/importation of any private motor vehicles exceeding 2litres/200 bhp. You are the lead laywer retained by motorists groups/manufacturers to try and overturn this policy decision in the High court. Why does anyone need a 500bhp car? Why does anyone need a car that can do 200mph? The future of the high performance car is in your hands.
Why should anyone be allowed to buy a house with two bathroooms, a silk tie, a coconut imported from the other side of the world, perfume that costs a weeks wage etc ..?
Banning high powered cars would just be the first step towards a society where we are all forced live in identical concrete boxes, wearing nylon shell suits and eating beans and chicken nuggets
Banning high powered cars would just be the first step towards a society where we are all forced live in identical concrete boxes, wearing nylon shell suits and eating beans and chicken nuggets
Bloody communists.
Because of choice, nobody 'needs' more than 2.0L or 200bhp but so long as people 'want' them and are willing to pay VAT on the vehicle, tax on the fuel, VAT on the tax on the fuel, Road tax, congestion charge, who loses?
Oh, the environment you say? I suppose you'll be banning diesel altogether then. Those hydrocarbon fueled power stations, they're out too. What about the aeronautical industry, the heavy shipping, the availability of national and international distribution for our food and goods?
Do you need a 1200w motor in your smoothie maker? Surely it'd only take a few more moments with an 800w one, any more than that would be an unnecessary extravagance.
Do you need all of your portable electronic devices? Wouldn't a 3310 suffice?
And what of all of the non-compliant but servicable machines which now cannot be re-sold? 'Invest' hundreds of tons of industrial gasses recycling them, making new ones and shipping them across the world?
Ban it all, see if there will be a second term for the green party this millenium.
Because of choice, nobody 'needs' more than 2.0L or 200bhp but so long as people 'want' them and are willing to pay VAT on the vehicle, tax on the fuel, VAT on the tax on the fuel, Road tax, congestion charge, who loses?
Oh, the environment you say? I suppose you'll be banning diesel altogether then. Those hydrocarbon fueled power stations, they're out too. What about the aeronautical industry, the heavy shipping, the availability of national and international distribution for our food and goods?
Do you need a 1200w motor in your smoothie maker? Surely it'd only take a few more moments with an 800w one, any more than that would be an unnecessary extravagance.
Do you need all of your portable electronic devices? Wouldn't a 3310 suffice?
And what of all of the non-compliant but servicable machines which now cannot be re-sold? 'Invest' hundreds of tons of industrial gasses recycling them, making new ones and shipping them across the world?
Ban it all, see if there will be a second term for the green party this millenium.
Edited by BritishRacinGrin on Monday 16th March 08:30
BritishRacinGrin said:
Do you need a 1200w motor in your smoothie maker? Surely it'd only take a few more moments with an 800w one, any more than that would be an unnecessary extravagance.
The EU has already banned the sale of vacuum cleaners with motors over 1600w and that's dropping to 900w in 2017. 
kambites said:
The EU has already banned the sale of vacuum cleaners with motors over 1600w and that's dropping to 900w in 2017.
Yet I've never seen any form of study on the efficiency, if a 1600W motor gets all the dirt out on the first pass I can clean my carpet in the half the time I can with a 900W motor that needs a second pass to get all the dirt out, in which case the 1600w uses 12.5% less energy.Not sure the same argument works quite so well with 500bhp cars but I'll have a go...
500bhp cars are clearly much faster than 200bhp cars, therefore reach their destination sooner. This reduces the number of cars on the roads, causing a reduction in traffic jams and an overall reduction of fuel usage nationally. (this is actually a legitimate argument for motorbikes)
Thousands of jobs would be lost as JLR, Lotus, Aston Martin and McLaren (the road car bit, anyway) go out out of business almost overnight.
London takes a nose dive as the rich playboys and girls take their money and cars abroad, the centuries-old financial markets start to decline as London loses favour; Knightsbridge becomes a ghetto. When a successful entrepreneur reaches a critical point, they up sticks and leave so they can enjoy the fruits of their labour, which they can't do in the UK as one of the luxury rewards/pastimes has now been banned.
London takes a nose dive as the rich playboys and girls take their money and cars abroad, the centuries-old financial markets start to decline as London loses favour; Knightsbridge becomes a ghetto. When a successful entrepreneur reaches a critical point, they up sticks and leave so they can enjoy the fruits of their labour, which they can't do in the UK as one of the luxury rewards/pastimes has now been banned.
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