Interesting to note the 'currently'. It seems of late that the Government has discovered that it can kill you on tax if it's for the environment.
It means that if you argue that you're paying too much tax, everyone will look at you as some planet-destroying monster.
Of course, people don't stop driving or give up their cars (which might actually make a difference), they just pay more tax.
I say currently because of the change from engine size to CO2.
The government are frankly a bunch of hypocrites, they say they're trying to be green, yet bring in this retarded scrappage scheme. It seems to have completely passed them by that a lot of the emissions from cars is actually from the production and disposal of the car. They're just looking at the CO2 emissions from the exhaust, rather than the full scale of emissions from when the ar is being built to when it gets disposed off. Interestingly, taking into account predicted life span as well as the environmental cost of production and disposal, a Hummer is cleaner than a Prius, because the Prius is one of, if not the most polluting car to make and dispose of, mostly because of the batteries, which are highly toxic. I cannot stand the Prius, especially the smugness of some of the owners that their car is so clean, when really it's not. If you really want to drive a cleaner car, then adjust the way you drive rather than the car.
Another thing that I think is really stupid is this thing about scrapping cars that have been seized for various reasons. It's just a waste of a perfectly good car, and means that one more car is going to have to be produced to replace that one. I'm surprised the government don't sell them on, as this would be a much better use of resources, and would mean that slightly fewer cars would need to be produced.
For a government apparently trying to be green, they talk a lot of bull. But then again, they are MPs.
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The lesson here is don't give a cyclist an inch cause they will always take a mile.
It's unfortunate and annoying that you get people like that, who give the rest of us a bad name.
But motorists are just as bad; coming back from town last week, I had some pillock sitting about a foot off my back wheel for about a mile, refusing to give me any space, he then overtook me on a fairly narrow bit of road, forcing me into the gutter with basically no room, the to top it all off, turned left in front of me at the next junction, so I had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting him.
I've noticed when out and about in Edinburgh, that when I'm driving, there are a few stupid cyclists, but it comes nowhere near the amount of stupid drivers I see when I'm both cycling and driving.