Charge 'em up
I was going to write today about how prisoners are receiving compensation for being forced to stop taking drugs, and had even written the blog.
Then I discovered the BBC news article about Red Ken increasing the congestion charging zone price to £25 for high-emissions vehicles from 2009. Sooner, if he can get away with it. So the prisoners can wait until tommorow.
I realise I rambled and ranted only a couple of weeks ago about eco-idiots but they are the one bunch of zealous morons that really really get my goat.
Not only is the charge to increase to £25, but also the discount for living there will be removed if you have a band G car. Currently you get a 90% discount (although, of course, it should be free if you live there. Charging people a tax to go home is outrageous) but this will be wiped out. You will have to pay £25 every day simply to live in your house with your car if it falls into band G.
Now the green line dribbled out by most of these asylum patients is that if you can afford a £60,000 Range Rover or an £80,000 Porsche then £25 per day is small change. I say £6000 per year is a lot in anyone's book. They also miss the point that it doesn't only affect cars bought by millionaires. It also affects family cars and people carriers. I doubt these people looked at the actual figures. I did. Of 1,718 models on the market in May 2005, 497 are in band G producing over 225gm/Km of CO2. This is 29% of all models. Admittedly, lots of these are the likes of Ferraris and Aston Martins, but also include the Renault Espace, the Rover 75 and the Fiat Stilo and many more. Not the minority that they would have you believe. These cars are not bought by rich people. They are bought by ordinary people. Ordinary people cannot afford £6000 per year to drive to their own homes.
Kenny-boy said that these people have chosen to buy a high-polluting vehicle and therefore should be punished. Actually he said "Those who buy them can afford to choose from pretty much the whole of the mainstream car market but have chosen to buy one of the most polluting vehicles. By making these changes to the congestion charging scheme we are encouraging people to take into account the impact of their choice of new car on the environment and the planet." which is the same, really.
He still hasn't grasped the fact that what he does makes no difference to global warming as Britain is basically an tiny inconsequential little place with practically no impact on climate change at all. Actually, he probably has, and just sees it as a way of making more money.
The London Assembley's Lib Dem spokesman had the following to say "Two years ago, we championed using congestion charge bands to hit the hated 'Chelsea tractors." Hated? By "hated", he of course means "popular"and "fastest-growing vehicle market segment."
The LA's Green Party (always useful for a jaw-dropping statement of complete lunacy) said "fantastic news which will mean the end for the Chelsea tractor". Ah, good. It's about time we closed down the last of our car industry. Land Rover may be US-owned these days, but it is based in the UK for its design and production like it always has been. Obviously it would be fantastic news to shut it down and make thousands and thousands of people redundant. I'm not sure how to word it to the families who work there but I'm sure they'll agree.
And do you know how many of these band G cars are actually 4x4's? I alluded to this in my previous tirade, and this time I actually counted again. 111 out of 497 according to the spreadsheet I got from the DVLA (I think it was the DVLA, it was over a year ago). Less than a quarter of band G cars actually are 4x4's - the vehicles specifically targetted by the Greens and the Lib Dems and other dim-witted people.
This fashionable targetting of 4x4 owners has to stop, along with ridiculous envinronmental taxes.
Then I discovered the BBC news article about Red Ken increasing the congestion charging zone price to £25 for high-emissions vehicles from 2009. Sooner, if he can get away with it. So the prisoners can wait until tommorow.
I realise I rambled and ranted only a couple of weeks ago about eco-idiots but they are the one bunch of zealous morons that really really get my goat.
Not only is the charge to increase to £25, but also the discount for living there will be removed if you have a band G car. Currently you get a 90% discount (although, of course, it should be free if you live there. Charging people a tax to go home is outrageous) but this will be wiped out. You will have to pay £25 every day simply to live in your house with your car if it falls into band G.
Now the green line dribbled out by most of these asylum patients is that if you can afford a £60,000 Range Rover or an £80,000 Porsche then £25 per day is small change. I say £6000 per year is a lot in anyone's book. They also miss the point that it doesn't only affect cars bought by millionaires. It also affects family cars and people carriers. I doubt these people looked at the actual figures. I did. Of 1,718 models on the market in May 2005, 497 are in band G producing over 225gm/Km of CO2. This is 29% of all models. Admittedly, lots of these are the likes of Ferraris and Aston Martins, but also include the Renault Espace, the Rover 75 and the Fiat Stilo and many more. Not the minority that they would have you believe. These cars are not bought by rich people. They are bought by ordinary people. Ordinary people cannot afford £6000 per year to drive to their own homes.
Kenny-boy said that these people have chosen to buy a high-polluting vehicle and therefore should be punished. Actually he said "Those who buy them can afford to choose from pretty much the whole of the mainstream car market but have chosen to buy one of the most polluting vehicles. By making these changes to the congestion charging scheme we are encouraging people to take into account the impact of their choice of new car on the environment and the planet." which is the same, really.
He still hasn't grasped the fact that what he does makes no difference to global warming as Britain is basically an tiny inconsequential little place with practically no impact on climate change at all. Actually, he probably has, and just sees it as a way of making more money.
The London Assembley's Lib Dem spokesman had the following to say "Two years ago, we championed using congestion charge bands to hit the hated 'Chelsea tractors." Hated? By "hated", he of course means "popular"and "fastest-growing vehicle market segment."
The LA's Green Party (always useful for a jaw-dropping statement of complete lunacy) said "fantastic news which will mean the end for the Chelsea tractor". Ah, good. It's about time we closed down the last of our car industry. Land Rover may be US-owned these days, but it is based in the UK for its design and production like it always has been. Obviously it would be fantastic news to shut it down and make thousands and thousands of people redundant. I'm not sure how to word it to the families who work there but I'm sure they'll agree.
And do you know how many of these band G cars are actually 4x4's? I alluded to this in my previous tirade, and this time I actually counted again. 111 out of 497 according to the spreadsheet I got from the DVLA (I think it was the DVLA, it was over a year ago). Less than a quarter of band G cars actually are 4x4's - the vehicles specifically targetted by the Greens and the Lib Dems and other dim-witted people.
This fashionable targetting of 4x4 owners has to stop, along with ridiculous envinronmental taxes.
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