uk pollution tax
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- vespa0
why thank you sir!
btw the waltzing worked the first week and all i had to do was avoid the icy stares of all the legitimate first classers but then a week later i was wandering up and down the train looking for my economy pre-booked seat and as i passed the bar the lady behind the trolley said excuse me it's FIRST CLASS that way, without even asking for my ticket! so basically she thought she could tell by the look of me that i was of an inferior class! oh my self esteem plummeted i tell you. Much rather drive after that. be queen of me own transport system etcetera.
- mr_snuggles0
Russel Brand...
- Dancer0
Well I carry around my placcy bag for when I go food shopping, I do get the strangest looks...
My anwer to all this is: Stop spending an obscene amount on the NHS - we will have to pay for it one day (US style) but no government is going to do it as they will be so unpopular. Spend that money one a better public transport system and getting solar panels on all new builds. Apparently if we had a solar panel on all rthe roofs in the UK we would have too much energy and would have to export it out..
* gasp* waits for barage of abuse
- trooperbill0
Consumers consume. Producers need are the ones that need regulating.
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thats exactly my point!Mark
- vespa0
what are you saying snuggles, that Mr Brand is queen of his own transport system?
- moth0
Let's be honest. All the good will in the world is not going to change global warming.
Millions will die, survivors will adapt. We're bloody good at it.
- vespa0
i guess so moth. seems easier to say if we assume we're on the winning side, like our descendants will adapt.
we've lost our sense of urgency, placated by selfish popular culture and exhausted by the endless frenzied cycle of consumption. for the good of the economy. no wonder we all want to escape!
- moth0
Why does my local supermarket want to sell me potatoes from Spain?
There's needless pollution right there.
- OBBTKN0
Cos we´ve got really nice potatoes...
- vespa0
exactly! check out some of those ready meals, asparagus from israel, tomatoes from italy, potatoes from spain.
- moth0
- Concrete0
Unfortunately everything I have read in this thread seems accurate or true.
Most modern cars can run on used vegetable oil or rape seed oil. Some how I cant see my local Esso garage installing a veggie pump.
There isn't a government on the planet that can implement true ecological solutions without drastically affecting the national/global economy and GDP. So they will tax everything until it's too late and our grandchildren will have to colonise space!
- Kuz0
bring back the corn-laws!!
- lowimpakt0
*rant* how stupid is that, instead of enforcing stringent manufacturing and industrial limitations on making environmentally friendly products in an environmentally friendly way phasing out current technology over the next few years.
trooperbill
(Oct 31 06, 00:53)
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is it really more legislation? or do consumers need to change their behaviour? or is it a mix of all these
- OBBTKN0
Colonise the space on Russian made rockets, with swiss made water, liofilised italian gourmet food and spanish flyes on it!
- moth0
bring back the corn-laws!!
Kuz
(Oct 31 06, 04:19)YES!
Fuck the free market. I don't fucking want Walmart/Starbucks, or produce that we can produce ourselves and create jobs doing so. Ban it. Ban it all.Somehow this is all linked to that utter toss that is the EU, who have our fisherman throwing back half their catch (dead) rather than selling it because it flies in the face of their shitty laws and such. Fuck the EU with an extraordinarily large and bent banana.
- Bluejam0
lets blow up parliament in five days time
- Concrete0
V
- lowimpakt0
why 5 days?
- _salisae_0
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