But governments throughout the would never give those figures, would they? !!!!According to Auto Express building one giant lithium battery for an electric vehicle has the same dirty output as running a diesel car for 12 years!
But where? They aren’t bothered about polluting third world countries. Most of the eco friendly tripe the government comes up with is flawed. I tend to agree with you that they just want the money with the LEZ thingAccording to Auto Express building one giant lithium battery for an electric vehicle has the same dirty output as running a diesel car for 12 years!
China produces 1/4 of all pollution, closely followed by India and the USA.. Bob
Yeah, five Bosch injectors for my VW 2.5tdi T4 comes in at £750 fitted, luckily they are working fine so far. , it has passed the MOT with no problems since 2010.Fancy injectors on diesel engines cost a grand a pop,so any wagon a few years old aint worth fixing.
Don't forget Russia
I must say that we do try and do the "green" thing. To make up for the fact we didn't have it in our day. You know, when we used to have paper carrier bags, drinking straws and the like. When all of our bottles were glass and were used over and over again. Kids nappies were washed and re-used... But you get the picture.
But what I rarely see mentioned is that we are part of a global system. Just because we clean up the air over the UK now, it will be gone in an instant and replaced by air and pollution from the USA, China, Russia et-al. Alone as one small group of islands, our draconian proposals will do nothing, except penalise the citizens of the UK for no gain.
Yes there can be localised differences in our towns and cities for a short while, but remember that air that travels the globe? Yep! It will bring in pollution from wherever it is produced. And WE are the problem. We want everything for nothing so we get goods made in cheap, far flung places who pollute! But I refuse to worry about it. I have an old Talbot 2.5 diesel. It is not green and makes no pretence at being clean. I wish I could clean it up, but until taxes become punitive or fuel is no longer available, I will keep driving my classic!
I agree with everything you say, except washing towelling nappies, we tried that many years ago to be "green" and we lasted two weeks.
There is now a process being rolled out to recycle disposable nappies, once washed the materials are all reusable and there will be an industry created with real employment. I think that is much better than banning disposable nappies and possibly putting people out of work.I am sorry to say that as far as I am concerned disposable nappies ought to be banned with immediate effect or at least taxed into oblivion!
Yes I watched a programme about the process..................... but in doing such a thing, the manufacturing of the machinery required as well as the running of the machinery will all take an enormous amount of energy all of which wouldn't be required if parents in the supposedly developed World of ours, collectively swallowed the I must do better pill of life!There is now a process being rolled out to recycle disposable nappies.
It was Gordon Brown and that delightful man Tony Blair who decided to make oil burners more expensive to run, simply because they were getting less fuel tax from diesel.We are already paying about 8p / 10p more per litre for diesel for something that take less refining, decades ago diesel was vastly cheaper than petrol for this one reason. We are being ripped off on diesel prices.
It was Gordon Brown and that delightful man Tony Blair who decided to make oil burners more expensive to run, simply because they were getting less fuel tax from diesel.
Washing old naps wastes energy and water which must be pumped to our homes.I agree with everything you say, except washing towelling nappies, we tried that many years ago to be "green" and we lasted two weeks. To reduce throw away nappies we just started feeding the baby less .
There needs to be a global agreement because ripping off only UK motorists will make little to no difference.