50mph limits in England to cut pollution?
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https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/85083/end-70mph...
What wales does first
Should there be an exemption for leccy cars?
What wales does first
Should there be an exemption for leccy cars?
garagewidow said:
If they seriously want to cut pollution stop selling SUV's.
They aren't really necessary to drop the kids off at school which is within walking distance for a lot of them.
But it is the dependency of consumerism that we have created that drives all our problems.
It is the same when you pop down the supermarket to buy your food. You’re not allowed to carry your shopping home in a plastic bag but all the shopping you’ve bought comes in plastic wrapping. They aren't really necessary to drop the kids off at school which is within walking distance for a lot of them.
But it is the dependency of consumerism that we have created that drives all our problems.
Or you buy a new iPhone and the phone, plug and wireless charging mat all come in three different packages with three different couriers and they call it ‘sustainable’.
Every time there is a new push to tackle pollution or climate change it is the average Joe that gets shafted or has to change his behaviour while the mega corporations just laugh in our face while virtue signalling about doing something.
That would just encourage me to use A and B roads where available, already tend to do that in places where the combination of very little traffic and zero policing means I can make progress at the cost of very little time in comparison to sticking to the M's and dc's. Not going to say "bring it on" as it's the opposite of what I believe we should do but I'll live.
rockin said:
I Wales? Yes.... yes it is. Just cutting motorway speeds from 70 to 50 is way too simplistic an action to have any certainty that it will cur .
Owing to actual time limits for some drivers, and physical time limits for others, it will mean may more drivers must spend more time on the roads to reach a particular destination. This will have a negative impact on business efficiency, and on peoples every day lives.
It will be different for different cars, but my every day driver is not particularly efficient at 50, because I have the choice of using either significantly higher RPM to do 50 in fourth gear ( which means higher fuel consumption, and therefore higher emissions) or use fifth gear at which speed the engine often tends to be labouring, again increasing emissions. It is most fuel efficient at 65 -67 mph, and uses very little more fuel at 70 mph.
Perhaps they should remove all speed limits, and let people drive at the most fuel efficient speed for their particular vehicle?
Owing to actual time limits for some drivers, and physical time limits for others, it will mean may more drivers must spend more time on the roads to reach a particular destination. This will have a negative impact on business efficiency, and on peoples every day lives.
It will be different for different cars, but my every day driver is not particularly efficient at 50, because I have the choice of using either significantly higher RPM to do 50 in fourth gear ( which means higher fuel consumption, and therefore higher emissions) or use fifth gear at which speed the engine often tends to be labouring, again increasing emissions. It is most fuel efficient at 65 -67 mph, and uses very little more fuel at 70 mph.
Perhaps they should remove all speed limits, and let people drive at the most fuel efficient speed for their particular vehicle?
Pan Pan Pan said:
my every day driver is not particularly efficient at 50, because I have the choice of using either significantly higher RPM to do 50 in fourth gear or use fifth gear at which speed the engine often tends to be labouring
What on earth sort of car built in the last 50 years is "labouring its engine" at 50 mph in 5th gear?Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff