Your fuel tax at work:

[clarkey328is]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15690682
So much for austerity plans. If they didn't waste all the taxes on pointless balls like this then perhaps we wouldn't be in a recession.
Oh well, I'm off to top up the meter (again).

[aclivity]

clarkey328is said:

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So much for austerity plans. If they didn't waste all the taxes on pointless balls like this then perhaps we wouldn't be in a recession.
Oh well, I'm off to top up the meter (again).

Fixed that link for you.

I'm not sure what your point is though?

I'm no greenie follower of the climate change mantra, far from it, but I do believe that finding ways to avoid using fossil fuel is a good thing (less oil used for power generation means more available to vehicles, perhaps?). Oil is a finite resource, although the available fuel may be more than some of the doom mongers would have us believe.

In addition, spending money that was taken from the oil companies (not from your fuel tax) to investigate these opportunities and in the process create some employment is better than just leaving the money in a bank?

Wave and tidal power are also probably more efficient than the offshore windmills, I would have thought. The wind may not always blow in the correct direction at the right speed, but the moon seems to be fairly consistent and that is what is driving the tides.