Comments on: Sad Really… http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Thu, 24 May 2012 19:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John A http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17420 John A Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:00:13 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17420 Its something his dad would approve of. Its something his dad would approve of.

]]> By: steves http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17353 steves Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:18:20 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17353 He belongs to a party that want to keep as large a section of the population dependent on the state - cars get in the way of public transport where we are at the whim of the state. And also they need a morass of poor people to feel morally superior when they talk about helping. Maybe he is just a people hater like a large section of the green movement He belongs to a party that want to keep as large a section of the population dependent on the state – cars get in the way of public transport where we are at the whim of the state.
And also they need a morass of poor people to feel morally superior when they talk about helping.

Maybe he is just a people hater like a large section of the green movement

]]> By: Pin Cushion http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17324 Pin Cushion Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:58:52 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17324 Another stab in the eye for anyone keen to recycle - or just extend the life of - items with a huge carbon cost when being built. Penalise the environmentally friendly - and while you're at it penalise those who only travel a few hundred miles a year by making them pay the same as people who travel tens of thousands of miles. That's value. The road tax is a mechanism to ensure that you continue to use your car incurring gargantuan fuel taxes in order to justify the insane cost of 'keeping the road network in traffic cones and management seminars for the upper reaches of the bureaucracy'. Another stab in the eye for anyone keen to recycle – or just extend the life of – items with a huge carbon cost when being built. Penalise the environmentally friendly – and while you’re at it penalise those who only travel a few hundred miles a year by making them pay the same as people who travel tens of thousands of miles. That’s value. The road tax is a mechanism to ensure that you continue to use your car incurring gargantuan fuel taxes in order to justify the insane cost of ‘keeping the road network in traffic cones and management seminars for the upper reaches of the bureaucracy’.

]]> By: Mr Potarto http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17293 Mr Potarto Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:47:42 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17293 I think you're looking at this the wrong way. You're thinking like someone grounded in maths and economics, when the Government looks at the issue of climate change like a child in a toy shop. They see lots of shiny toys and they want them. All the toys back at home suddenly seem cheap and dirty, embarrassments when instead they could have the new shiny windmills and hybrid cars. So they want us to throw away all the old cars and go out and buy shiny new, slightly-less-polluting ones. And when technology moves on in five years and knocks another 10% off emissions, they will stamp their feet and scream and demand we do it all again. It's only money after all, and they've got lots of it. I think you’re looking at this the wrong way. You’re thinking like someone grounded in maths and economics, when the Government looks at the issue of climate change like a child in a toy shop. They see lots of shiny toys and they want them. All the toys back at home suddenly seem cheap and dirty, embarrassments when instead they could have the new shiny windmills and hybrid cars.

So they want us to throw away all the old cars and go out and buy shiny new, slightly-less-polluting ones. And when technology moves on in five years and knocks another 10% off emissions, they will stamp their feet and scream and demand we do it all again.

It’s only money after all, and they’ve got lots of it.

]]> By: Serf http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17248 Serf Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:45:15 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17248 Increasing taxes on existing cars is nothing more than spite. Can they be taxed away? I think not. Increasing taxes on existing cars is nothing more than spite. Can they be taxed away? I think not.

]]> By: dearieme http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/comment-page-1/#comment-17209 dearieme Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:20:43 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/07/14/sad-really/#comment-17209 Rhetorical question, Lord Tim. Rhetorical question, Lord Tim.

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