Phat Naquer
Member Since: 20 Mar 2007
Location: Anglesey most of the time
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I don't see what CO2 has to do with pollution at street level anyway. Surely it's particulate emission which is the problem, in which case the main problem is Buses, Taxis and Lorries. There is no metric for particulate emission like there is for CO2 so there's no way you could introduce a tax based on that. The Road Fund Licence sliding scale for CO2 emissions is applied to the whole country because, if you believe the Greenhouse Gas Lobby, it affects the whole country not specific areas with high concentrations of emissions. Why is it called a 'Congestion Charge' if he's going to base it on emissions. If everyone buys low emission cars the congestion will still be there and the stupid prat can't see that.
When I was in Hong Kong during '98 and '99 there were problems with smog caused by high particulate emissions from buses and taxis (mainly). The government were introducing an incentrive scheme to entice taxi drivers over from Diesel to LPG. I don't know if it continued after I left because there were problems with safety as, believe it or not, some of their filling stations are situated in the open street level of high rise apartment buildings. But this was a government who realised what the main contributor to a REAL problem was and were trying to actively rectify the problem rather than banish it.
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 27th May 2007 10:19 am |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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Very Annoyed wrote:BTW Ken will get voted in again because there is no one who will stand against him, besides the conservatives are all green now so I doubt policy would change even if the mayor changes! b  ds !!!!!!!
So why not another London resident ? You don't have to be attached to a phoney political party like the main three we have to go for the Mayorship 
VA for Lord Mayor of London 
I can see it now, VA and his ceremonial chains of office, knee deep in mud helping some poor sod out of the mud in the new off road play area in Regents Park 
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| 27th May 2007 12:30 pm |
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