Green Taxes? What's the Problem?

[Mailman]

Not according to the numpty on TV this morning. According to him this is about England being a world leader in cutting carbon poisoning!

Mailman

[shaunbhoy]

Agree with Mailman. All this has ever been is a convenient way of attaching revenue collection to a moral banner. It matters not a jot what we do here in Blighty in isolation anyway. Most people here already do a fair amount simply as a result of the prohibitive cost of utilities.
Besides, the world will continue to warm despite anything we do. It always has and it always will cyclically. Even our best efforts will simply amount to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
No, if World Governments REALLY want to address this issue they should jointly agree to force the big Oil Companies to ringfence ever increasing sums from their obscene profits to be spent on developing alternative power sources such as hydrogen engines. Like THAT will ever happen though! Wouldn't be fair I suppose.

[Lucifer Box]

No, if World Governments REALLY want to address this issue they should jointly agree to force the big Oil Companies to ringfence ever increasing sums from their obscene profits to be spent on developing alternative power sources such as hydrogen engines. Like THAT will ever happen though! Wouldn't be fair I suppose.

Right on, comrade. Come the revolution obscene profiteerers will be the first against the wall.

[DaveB]

Right on, comrade. Come the revolution obscene profiteerers will be the first against the wall.

I thought that was going to be the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?

[Lucifer Box]

I thought that was going to be the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?

[zeitghost]

Them too.

[ratewhore]

Even our best efforts will simply amount to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

Brilliant line. I'm going to quote that as my own...

[DaveB]

Brilliant line. I'm going to quote that as my own...

Mr Morton might get upset about that.

"The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (5th Ed. 1999), page 533, lists a
quotation from the Washington Post, 16 May 1976, by Rogers Morton,
American public relations officer: "I'm not going to rearrange the
furniture on the deck of the Titanic." The context, according to the
dictionary, was that Morton had lost five of the last six primaries as
President Ford's campaign manager."

[sasguru]

Totally against taxes of any kind but support them in one case: stupid w*ankers who drive SUVs in the city - nothing to do with global warming etc etc - it's just that they're ugly, clog up the streets and the people who drive them are thick as planks.

[DimPrawn]

We've heard this before.

What the **** is the definition of SUV?

Big? So is a people carrier, limo, van, lorry, bus or London cab.

4x4? So is a fecking Fiat Panda

Gas Guzzler? So is an American imported saloon car, big BMW or Audi, sports car etc

Ugly? So is a Skoda.


What's your point guru?