Excuses to raise taxes

**Andyw** · 7 August 2006, 12:50

Originally posted by DimPrawn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5251022.stm

Taxes on air travel and "gas guzzling" cars should be raised to cut greenhouse gas emissions, says a committee of MPs.
The MPs' report criticises the Department of Transport for adopting a "fatalistic" attitude towards cutting emissions caused by increased travel.

The report also calls for speed limits to be dramatically cut or rigorously enforced on motorways and trunk roads.

Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman said taxes on gas guzzlers had already been raised and could go up further.

I'm sorry, this is all just a ruse to put a plethora of stealth taxes in place to boost the massive waste on public services.

Oh well ! never mind, according to some, we all earn good money so whats the harm in parting with a bit more.....

**Bagpuss** · 7 August 2006, 12:50

Apart from the obvious typo, somone at the BBC is a numpty (spot the odd ones out).

"Jaguar X type 2.0 petrol saloon auto
Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe 3.6 litre petrol
Renault Espace 2 lite petrol
BMW X5 4.8 litre petrol
Range Rover 4.4 V8 petrol auto"

**The Lone Gunman** · 7 August 2006, 12:52

The report also calls for speed limits to be dramatically cut or rigorously enforced on motorways and trunk roads.

This threw up all sorts of arguments in my mind.

A Merc S class has better MPG than most of the "green" cars even at 100 mph.
"Sorry officer, I was being kind to the environment".

The UK went for Catalytic converters as weapon of choice in the emmisions war even though leen burn is a better answer (due to car manufacturers lobby because they get after sales every 3 years on cats). Cats are useless most of the time in the UK as they struggle to get up to working temparature due to our climate. If the speed limit is reduced for economy of fuel use the working temp for the cat will never be achieved so producing more polution.

So many more arguments.

**Fleetwood** · 7 August 2006, 13:07

lean
pollution

**The Lone Gunman** · 7 August 2006, 13:10

Originally posted by Fleetwood

lean
pollution

glad to see youve got somat positive to add to the debate instead of just stacking the post count.

BTW whats the new avatar. Looks a bit suspect to me. Some bird flashing her pants.

**Fleetwood** · 7 August 2006, 13:26

It is "some bird flashing her pants" and it's from a painting by Ed Beardsley.

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**mcquiggd** · 7 August 2006, 16:27

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**AtW** · 7 August 2006, 17:06

Originally posted by mcquiggd

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I hate it when first letter is lowercased in vars, wtf happened with good old notation that clearly shows which type is any given variable, ie: iCounter for integer counter.

**DimPrawn** · 7 August 2006, 17:23

AtW you really are an idiot.

no one uses Hungarian notation with .NET

Read the Microsoft design and coding std's

Excuses to raise taxes