You have all read it. Our masters now want to tax us out of what little bit of cash we have got left,all in the name of the enviroment.
Drive a 4x4 or a car over 1500cc,(your safe if you drive an electric car, [just where can you get one?]), live in a house with a nice view, live in a good area with good schools, throw your rubbish away?
You do, you had better put in for your £10000 a year pay rise now.
As for the rest of us? Never mind, all the extra money they are going to raise will go in paying increased benefit so we can live.
Just where do they think people are going to find all this extra money to pay for all these new taxes.I suppose it's a good thing they haven't yet found a way of taxing the air we breath. Mind you there is more than likely a "quango" somewhere working on that as well.
Pity that USA, China,India dont conform. Why should this small insignificant island pay to protect the world from global warming when no one else does!
The doom and gloom merchants have been at it for years. Some years ago we were told that by 2007 the sea would have reached Ely and we only would need to go that far to get to the seaside. I'm still waiting. Like to fly off on holiday? Kiss that goodbye, This will be for the wealthy or MP's only
Come on readers, lets see your answers to this one. Then again you might earn enough not to worry about a big rise in stealth tax. Or have you been been brain washed enough to believe all this rubbish, yes there may be a problem, but there again how many times has the earth been through the cycle of ice age/global warming and back to ice age. I bet the cave men thought the world was coming to an end at the end of the last ice age because it was getting so warm.
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I'm on a quest to make sure you can get an electric car in the UK and not just within the M25, which you can do already. OK, OK, most of them will still rely on fossil-fuel derived electricity, but that will change and you can already use green power suppliers. The cars are getting better too, but even the little ones that look like Smart cars are brilliant to drive - for one thing their acceleration is instant (I drove one for a year before Ford called them all back). So, instead of just moaning, I'm now trying to do something positive, talking to EV car companies and local govt to see how we can get more of the cars over here. Check www.mygreenwheels.com - I'm on a mission!
Personally I'm mighty pissed off about the whole 'Earth going to hell in a handcart' scanario. About ten years ago I spent some time travelling around Asia and used to regularly get into heated arguments with people who claimed that we were all stuffed. My response was 'We'll think of something to save ourselves'. When I think back to that I realise how naive that view was.
The bottom line is that the Earth is going to hell and the people who are going to suffer the most are the people who always suffer, the poor in less developed countries. If you remember the regularity with which countries like Bangladesh flood, consider how much worse that will be.
As for us, or more specifically me, I'm pissed off that I'm going to pay for the profligacy of my parents generation. You might argue that we've never had it so good but exactly how long will that last? Not long. Long enough for the older generation to die off in prosperity and leave the rest of us well and truly in the shit. Then me and my kids will have to cope with the massive instability that will surely happen.
It does not have to be a doomsday scanario (for us in the west anyway) but don't imagine that a 20% drop in world GDP isn't going to make a difference because it really really is.
Some interesting comments. Com-on chillipepper more power to your elbow, I agree, that little Ford was a cracker, drove it several times myself but only on closed areas so never had a chance on the open road.
As for Arlo's comments.
Sorry mate we have been throwing money,aid and everything inbetween at these countries for as many years as I can remember. I hate to say this but most of it ends up lining the pockets of polititians, big and small and very little gets to where it is intended. Many years ago I was living in a place struck by a hurricane, guess what, the locals said they could not help unload the aid rushed from the UK because they were suffering from the after effects of the storm. We managed, but the locals just sat and watched, hands held out, while we did all the work.
Yes there may be a problem, but a little self help would not go amiss.
We all know that fossil fuels creat CO2 emissions but in turn, nuclear power which is clean(ish) has many problems as well so where to turn? I dont really think you comment about the "oldies" is really justified, they may not be perfect but they gave you what you've got, maybe not directly but they provided the means to get you where you are now. So think on before slagging them off.
As you say the world will not go to hell, someone somewhere will play the white knight on his (or her)charger and come up with the answer to our problem so don't dispare just yet.
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