Huhne : "Ban Petrol Cars"
It must be "Green Loon Day" today - the LibDems have just released (on recycled paper) a 46 page plan for a "Zero Carbon Britain". Which is a bit scary since we are carbon-based life forms.Huhne also wants to ban petrol cars within a generation (by 2040). How he has changed from his days as a City slicker when he drove about the Square Mile in a big black petrol guzzling BMW 7 Series, with the self-effacing number plate "H11HNE". He now drives a greenish poseur politician's electo-petro Toyota Prius hybrid. The only green vehicle is a bike, like Boris has...
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Dave will be right behind this one.
He clearly thinks the drastic drop in support for the Lib Dems in the South isn't steep enough ...
Lib Dems.
More like Glib Democunts.
Great joke dogbox. But since there won't actually be any petrol cars in 2040, this is considerably less punitive than the Tory proposals.
Did Dave tell Sun readers he still maintains membership of EPP?
I think it is all a plot to kick Ming the Glorious
out into the highgrass!
I mean..Call the troops back. An Amnesty for ILLEGAL immigrants! Now a ban on petrol vehicles!
They are so removed from real life and real people.
Keep it up Huhne..this way the demise of the Lib Dems is assured.
Banning petrol cars is a mistake, diesel is far dirtier, diesel engines just burn less fuel. What politicians should be advocating is smaller engines, if you limited PLV to 1.6l cars would still do 70-100mph, but would not have the acceleration. They would be inherently safer negating the need for the huge number of speed cameras. The way to make faster cars would be to make them lighter from re-usable materials like aluminium. Lighter cars use less fuel and a would make the country a safer place.
Mobility has added more to our quality of life than anything else, we should not restrict it, just make it more environmentally friendly.
Why not ban EVERYTHING?
What a prat
I's a typo. It should read they want to ban PATROL cars; they are worried about the hearts of all those donut-eating coppers and want them back pounding the beat.
if you limited PLV to 1.6l cars would still do 70-100mph, but would not have the acceleration
What about my human right to drive through the Oxfordshire countryside at 179 mph in a "borrowed" Porsche 911?
Anon 3:53
Totally in agreement. Having to sit behind some filthy N reg London cabbie spewing out diesel fumes is enough for me to want to impale Green Davey on his bike spokes, one at a time. The trouble is the bullying aspect of Britain's bureaucracy, i.e. it is far easier to attack petrol car users who do not have a pressure group behind them, than to suggest to the London Black Cab drivers that they start using LPG-powered vehicles, as even Shanghai's taxi drivers have to do now for example.
I say Guido old man, have you got the correct link in this posting?
I was expecting to read some nonsense by Huhne, but before I could say "liberal loonie" I found myself engulfed in a George Monbiot diatribe.
By the time I'd got to paragraph two I was losing the will to live.
Has anybody calculated how much Britains carbon footprint as a whole has increased following the influx of over a million immigrants since Labour came to power? I'm guessing that this has not been done nor ever will.
They can have my collection of British designed & built V8 4 x 4's when they have enough troops back from Iraq & Afghanistan to mount an operation to liberate them from my land.
Bring guns.
Lots of guns.
According to the latest Government ads, 'your recycled can could become a car or a plane...'
http://www.recyclenow.com/fun_stuff/watch_it_here/recycle_now_tv.html#video_3
Surely the Lib Dems should demand a ban on recycling.
"if you limited PLV to 1.6l cars would still do 70-100mph, but would not have the acceleration."
Obviously you haven't seen bike engine conversions in sports cars.
A 1 litre bike engine has more than enough power (around 150BHP) in some cases to get a lightweight vehicle from 0 to Oooh Crikey in under 10 seconds
Such a brilliant idea,no petrol cars, Britain end's up going back to the stone age ,while the rest of the world gets on with living ,are you sure the politician's haven't been on a taster around Afghanistan's poppy fields.
Fred 5:00pm
Never mind petrol cars, I really wish someone would ban the mis-use of apostrophes. It makes my dick itch.
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did you like that?
So we've got;
a "Labour" Party that does absolutely nothing but tax the working man to death whilst rewarding scroungers.
a "Liberal" democrat party that delights in proclaiming they'll ban anything and everything (except blind loyalty to the corrupt EU)
and a "Conservative" party that doesn't appear to have a clue what its identity is.
No wonder hardly anyone bothers to vote any more.
On the basis we should ban everything that emits greenhouse gasses, how about banning cows? They emit methane which is several times worse than CO2 for global warming.
Hmm.... maybe he's a meat eater?
No question he's a muppet..
(and I drive a diesel)
If HMG were serious about all this green stuff it could legislate so that all internal combustion powered vehicles on the highway have a minimum mpg of 50m miles at 56 mph regardless of the type of fuel used.
Beepee
No No NO.... bring it on.. The more they fiddle and tax (!)with car, truck etc. The more it keeps me in a job testing engines (huh!)
Huhne's seat is in Eastleigh, Hampshire. And as somebody who's shopped there, I can tell you there's no worse place to not have a car. Perhaps Huhne yearns for a return to the City? Or at least, a spell on the dole queues...
I used to live next to Huhne. Last time I saw him, I shouted "13% in the polls". He called me a wanker and sped off in his aforementioned Toyota Prius.
This man is not just a fuckwit he should be locked up for being a complete waste of breath if he died then not only would his carbon footprint disapear I would be happier.Good job hes a libdum no chance of power.
"What politicians should be advocating is smaller engines"
They shouldn't be doing anything of the sort, they should be sodding off and letting us get on with our lives. Next they'll be telling owners of pubs whether they're allowed to permit smoking on their private property or not. Oh hang on...
Huhne?
Whaaaaaaaaat a tosser.
But who is going to kick this fuckwit out?
Tory marginal target last time, but I bet he's sewn up the vote in Eastleigh tighter than a poodles arsehole over the last 18 months. They're all stupid enough to fall for his twatfaced bullshit.
Face it. We're stuck with the cunt.
What a freak show.
Surely by 2040 we will all be under water / fighting off polar bears on ice floes / living in a parched desert / whatever is the current dire prediction for Britain after 30 years of global warming?
I heard it on BBC News 24 this morning, must be right.
My footprint has disappeared since I shopped at Brantano
I we're still driving piles of junk powered by combustion engines in 2040, it'll be a rather sad reflection on British innovation.
Right, that's me made my mind up, next car I buy is a V8 BMW, Audi or Jag - while I still can!
Think i will buy me that nissan 350zx
nice big v6 take the cats off bit more power then drive round his house laughing.Fucking politicians worse than cockroaches.
O/T one of Brown's Babes in a marginal seat looks like she's in a bit of trouble:
http://www.iwca.info/cgi-bin/iwcanews.pl?record=19
Why stop at banning cars?
Another good wheeze to reduce carbon emmissions would be to reintroduce treadmills into our prisons. The treadmills could be plugged into the national grid and prison sentences set in terms of killowatt hours produced for the national good.
Given the ever increasing number of prison inmates, they should be able to reduce the need for at least one nuclear power station.
Anon @6:18am
This doesn't only happen in Islington. I've just been decanted from my housing assoc flat for the same 'reason'. The property is 'uneconomic to repair'. It would have helped if they'd actually done any maintainance on it in the last 10 years. The repairs required are replacing a few loose tiles on the roof & new windows to replace the ones that haven't been painted for a decade and are now rotten.
I copped four grand disturbance allowance & a grand moving expenses.
Interestingly, there is no paper trail on the records for all this. The only letters I recieved were to arrange meetings for verbal discussions. At no point was a formal request for me to vacate the property made in writing. As far as the paperwork shows I've requested & been granted a transfer.
As of today the property is standing empty & has been for 3 months. An identical property in the same road was auctioned by the same housing assoc earlier this year. It had remained empty & derelict for 2 years.
An they say there's a crisis in the public housing sector......
I'm keeping my 18 year old v8 Range Rover until it finally stops working, which might well be in 2040 - the point is, it runs on LPG because diesel is prone to causing lung cancer - or did you not get that memo?
I think its time to ban politicians, all they seem to want to do today is to control our behaviour, not represent us - which is why they got the job in the first place!
Thank good this is the silly season when nobody reads the papers anyway!
Gordon Brown's Fertile Imagination said...
Why stop at banning cars?
Another good wheeze to reduce carbon emmissions would be to reintroduce treadmills into our prisons. The treadmills could be plugged into the national grid
This man is a plaigarist and a NuLab Troll...vide my earlier post on the Competition:-
Penfold said...
Tax breaks for private coy's who introduce treadmills in prisons, for prisoners to march on, generating clean renewable energy, making prisoners suffer and atone for their crimes, and providing a positive cashflow aspect to the Prison Service.
3:10 PM, August 28, 2007
At least we'll be rid of Hughne at the next election (contrary to some comments). He has less chance of hanging onto Eastleigh than I have of becoming the next pope.
Can someone not shit in the stupid cunt's mouth and make him shut the fuck up? Have I got the right Liberal, or do they all do it? No matter, I still vote his mouth should be stuffed full of shit, it might stop him talking it so much.
10:27 anyonebutbrown
On what basis do you make that comment cleverclogs? Do you LIVE near Eastleigh?
No. You live near Brighton and clearly know nothing of what's going on in Eastleigh.
Huhne is popular locally, as are the Lib Dem council and we still haven't selected a fucking candidate.
Huhne will double his majority at the very LEAST.
A local farmer is selling bio-fuel and may turn the whole farm over to it. Wouldn't bio-fuel cars help British Farmers, and do we still want to be relying on oil supplies from Iran and Iraq in 2040? North Sea oil will have run out.
Personal number plates say an awful lot about a person.
david 4:43pm
According to the latest Government ads, 'your recycled can could become a car or a plane...'
More likely a cluster bomb.
Afghan children are going to be so excited when they receive their sorely needed educational supplements of alphabetti spagetti...
the mookster 5:15pm said...
"Never mind petrol cars, I really wish someone would ban the mis-use of apostrophes. It makes my dick itch."
I find colons easier to work with.
Sadly by the time Boris gets in to work after a 60 mile pedal it is time for him to turn round and go home. That is the best place for him.
Ther professor's analysis is rather specific to a rather atypical journey.
There are other studies which find otherwise.
But this kind of thing would be a good argument for building solar captures and wind turbines of various kinds ALL ALONG OUR RAILWAYS.
Allowing bikes on Manchester's trams would be a useful step to be going onwards.
Thanks to hassle fromthe likes of myself these trams are on green leckie.
"Allowing bikes on Manchester's trams"
NO! Bikes should be banned from trains, trams, tubes and all other forms of public transport.
Cyclist bastards get in my way when I'm trying to run for trains, they get oil and mud on my suit trousers from their chains and wheels as they thrust their bikes onto carriages and their BO stinks out an already unpleasant journey.
Oh and while you're around, learn what red lights mean too.
YES!
It's the pollution stupid. London pollution has soared since 2001, thanks to Leninspart adopting 'Urban Safety Management' techniques. That's more traffic lights, on red, more often.
This causes stop-start traffic to produce much more pollution especially in diesel vehicles - which means NOX and particulates - both very damaging to health.
In fact, London is way over the EU legal limts and has until 2010 to clear the air (or pay big fines), but it won't get near, not even with the useless low emission zone, which works off the 'theory' that a vehicle should be cleanish, rather than checking the emissions of individual vehciles (which is very easy).
Perhaps that's because proper road-side sensors would condem every black cab (aside from the new 07 models), and very many buses.
Why, when the rest of the world is shifting to gas-power for buses and taxis, did lenin buy 8000 new diesel buses, with more on order?
The Chartered Society of Pysiotherapists are going nuts about London pollution, but everybody is ignoring them.
Incidentally, did you know Camden council has laid pavement stones covered with Titanium Dioxide, in an attempt to break down the atmospheric NOX in sunlight (NOX helps cause smog).
Sorry, it's not the SUVs (whose petrol engines are wishpering zephyrs when it comes to pollutants) - it the shitty diesel commercial vehicles.
And diesel particulate filters don't work in town - big league car makers are telling UK customers that without a reasonably long high-speed run, the filters cannot self-clean and will eventually pack up.
Easy win for Boris, here I feel.
ps - Did you see Lenin and his missus in the Standard tonight? - she's never been pictured in eight years. Looks terrified in the pic - but she better get used to it - Lenin is on mega canvassing mode 'cos Boris scares the shit out of him.
Still, I hope Lenin doesn't try and play the 'faithful' husband schtick - my labour party friends have some very rum stories about the red shagger....
Only the intellectually, aurally and optically challenged would want to shag Leninstone.
12:39am
The Chartered Society of Pysiotherapists are going nuts about London pollution, but everybody is ignoring them.
Never 'eard of 'em!
They a terrorist group or what?
anonymous 12:39am
yeah i blame the global warming...everything seems to be so hot these days...
so these Titanium Dioxide pavement stones...they worth anything then?
Huhmes petrol phasing ou petrol is a good idea. Then we won't need to invade Iran or Venezala.
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