controversial new EU plans to ban petrol and diesel powered cars from cities have been announced, it is vital to cut pollution and stop global warming which scientists blame on carbon dioxide (CO2) - the so-called 'greenhouse gas' emitted from car exhausts, even though latest research from Which? magazine shows that carbon footprint from 'green' cars is only 20% less (and falling), from modern diesels, I guess these tree huggers and green lefties have not read the book, Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, the book by Robert and Brenda Vale argues that owning a medium-sized dog has the same ecological impact as driving 6,000 miles in a 4x4 such as a Toyota Land Cruiser, so all dog keepers are to be banned as well?
Christopher Monckton, transport spokesman for the UK Independence Party' said: 'the proposals suggested by Commission take us into the realms of fantasy, they want to ban cars from cities, they want to force everybody onto rail and canals, it is if they have been taken over by the shade of the Victorian engineers,' Edmund King, the AA's president said: 'Drivers don't know whether they're coming or going with environmental measures, one minute they're supposed to be cutting CO2 and switch to diesel, the next they get pilloried and taxed for doing just that,'
the eurosceptic think-tank Open Europe criticised the plan: 'this goes to show the extent of the EU's ambitions to interfere in the UK's national affairs, banning all petrol-fuelled cars in city centres is an absolutely crazy idea and one that could only have come from unaccountable bureaucrats in the European Commission,' I for one agree, by 2050 petrol will be too expensive to buy - problem, solved!
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