Previous Govenment policy to waste our petrol to gain tax money????

[carbore]

Just read a bizzare comment in a press item

Previously the Department for Transport (DfT) had discouraged the systems which reduce fuel use, resulting in less tax being paid to the Treasury.

But now, rather than seeing green wave systems as a "cost" to the public purse, the DfT views them as a "benefit"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7998182.stm

Now I know the Press (esp BBC) are not that reliable in thier writign but are they sayign IT WAS GOVERNMENT POLICY to put in/encourage systems to WATE PETROL IN ORDER TO GAIN MONEY!

If so thats absolutley shocking and (greenies note) a crime against the environment.

I wonder if any motoring mag will pick this up and make an issue out of it (coz the AA will just suck up)

[Range Rover Blues]

I've long believed that a lot of government policy about traffic management increases fuel consumption and polution but I didn't realise it was quite so deliberate.

[V8MoneyPit]

It's just another example like the one in LSP's thread.

So called traffic calming measures will always cause more pollution because the way drivers tend to accelerate between them. And the fact the vehicles are not travelling anywhere near their optimum speed for economy. Obviously, it's crazy to expect vehicles to be doing 56mph in a built up area. They may reduce incidents involving pedestrians, but they certainly don't reduce polution (noise or fumes).

And the government sit back rubbing their hands together with glee because of all the extra income from the fuel consumed. And the VAT they get from the sale of replacement parts due to wear and tear to vehicles bouncing over speed bumps. It's simply not in their interests to own up to the negative side effects of these systems.

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Soon will be the Summer of Discontent! It has been a long time coming.

[crazymac]

Soon will be the Summer of Discontent! It has been a long time coming.

I'd fully expected the Winter if discontent but it never seemed to materialise :roll:

[CaptainColourful]

Soon will be the Summer of Discontent! It has been a long time coming.

I'd fully expected the Winter if discontent but it never seemed to materialise :roll:

Summer is better !

[Range Rover Blues]

Will it involve the stench from the bins they don't empty :pale:

It was gov't policy to introduce the once-a-fortnight collections during the winter so we didn't notice the stink 'till it was too late.

[Disco Matt]

Sadly, it seems that we now have a nation of sheep. Give them Big Brother, soaps and "celebrity" trash and they just won't care about the fact that their civil liberties are being eroded.

This wouldn't be anything to do with the shadowy links between government and media would it, and how one keeps the masses under control so they won't stop the other from doing what it wants...

[littlepow]