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Hopefully Tony has bigger fish to fry for the time being......................... ...
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There is a lot of mis-information out there at the moment, fuelled further by Red Ken and the anti 4x4 lobby. None of them have a leg to stand on in my opinion when faced with the fact that we could all run on an environmentally sustainable alternative with a bit of support (veg oil/ ethanol etc). In that respect high fuel consumption vehicles could become a source of revenue rather than just an atmospheric burdon. Funnily enough I'm an environmental scientist so it will be interesting to see how many of my clients question my choice of site vehicle of recent times, the 3.0 Surf. Not many i would suggest since it carries the equipment I need (often over landfills and other crappy sites) to determine the impact of contaminated land on humans and the environment!! Mind you a lot of my clients drive Range Rovers and X5's, the ba***rds!!Originally posted by skippernicky -
They are already!!Originally posted by contaminated
Thats what annoys me about about all this 'tax this, tax that' crap, anyone who is driving some that does 10mpg is already paying more tax than someone doing 30mpg. You can't help it, your buying more fuel, therefore paying more tax. Ken should concentrate on getting all the buses and cabs to run on veg oil, than making all this fuss about a minority of motor vehicles. I hate bandwagons.
4x4toys.co.uk - Keeping you on and off the road...Comment
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And our favourite friends' (Red Ken)favourite mode of transport...?
A taxi... how enviromentally friendly are they? (less than an Surf on Vegoil, I bet)
On the eco-fuels... if you cook with sunflower oil you pay very little tax on it. If you choose to use it in your favourite 'toy', they charge you an arm and a leg to use it... where is the sense in that.
Surely this would be a large 'win' or gesture for our 'esteemed' leaders to make for the 'green' lobby...Comment
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they are too busy banning air rifles and making fancy dress outfits for community service 'volenteers'...it's in me shed, mate.Comment
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that's my job!!! (not the fancy dress outfits lol - although sometimes I do get this strange hankering...)Originally posted by ChillittDaveComment
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[QUOTE=Chillitt]they are too busy banning air rifles and making fancy dress outfits for community service 'volenteers'...[/QUOTE]
I think the idea of making community service order types wear orange is totally luducrous. In fact, as a railway worker, I resent it. They should be made to wear pink crotchless boiler suits or to dress up as The Village People, so they can't be mistaken for anybody who does anything worthwhile. Lets humiliate them properly.It's only a hobby!Comment
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They had to pick on Landrover as there are no small car makers left in the UK!!!!Originally posted by skippernicky
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Did they all walk to the location or did they arrive in a large bus? Naw, proably all arrived in environmentally friendly Surfs!Originally posted by laser_jock@workComment
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why do the protesters have to be so negative anti this ban that stop everything!
wouldnt it be healthier to promote good things like
alternative fuels
walking buses for school runs
trains(!)
car pools
gun cabinets...
prisons
i could go on..it's in me shed, mate.Comment
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the problem is that people can only see 'negative' like 'oh that's bad, we'll have to ban it' mainly as it's the easier route to take. it's much harder to go 'oh that's bad, but if we all make a bit of effort and try to do this...'
the greenies spout alternatative fuels etc only when it suits them. if we took their advice at the time, we'd all be driving veg oil-powered diesel engines, and it wouldn't matter if they were 4x4 or not. Oh hang on a minute, isn't this something that someone has mentioned before
DaveComment
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The Cayenne and X5 drivers out there give us all a bad rep. I wish Red ken would come out to the rest of the country and have a look around, rather than siting in an office in the smog trying to ban 4x4's. Ban them in london if they cause a problem in london, dont punish us for the mum's taxi brigade!JohnnyComment
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I wish Ken would shut is trap as nothing but twaddle comes out of it.....He seems to think everybody wants what he thinksIm not a gynacologist but ill have a lookComment
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I know a bloke with a cayenne turbo. I used to think 21 mpg was bad!! Fuel ecomomy on another mate's X5 not so bad, you just look a c**k driving it!!Originally posted by J5CComment
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the son of a chap i work with just bought an aston. had it 2 weeks and it's just been keyed from one end to tother... is this considered a valid protest amongst enviromentalists?it's in me shed, mate.Comment
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