The promotion of fuel-efficient cars should start with the government. The promotion of renewable-fuel cars should start with the government. They need to have the balls to stand up to the oil industry who bury technology detrimental to their business, no private company can reasonably be expected to do so. As far as I know, we have a trickle of at best hybrid cars, and little seems known about them. We need a government hell-bent on selling as many new generation engines as possible. We need a government who will invest in refining renewable carbon-neutral fuels. What's been done so far isn't good enough. It's one thing to stand and shout about environmental effects, but we never hear anything about alternatives - other than those who have everything in reach of their doorstep bantering, "oh, well just don't drive". Usefull. Very usefull.
The more I uncover on 'green' fuels the more I learn about other countries having already got there. Elsewhere in the EU many busses are already run on biodiesel. What does the average person here know about it? Everything comes from the top, without commitment from the top down there's no reason or incentive for the huge corporations to take upon themselves a greener attitude.
And as Thalyi points out, we do at least require yearly emissions tests and road safety checks, engines taxed according to pollution output, and thankfully we in the UK don't have a culture of 5mpg oversized engines. Despite this effort we're still taxed to buggery though. I hear plenty about the duty being there to counter environmental damage - I hear nothing about exactly what remedies that pays for. A governement that cares? Hardly.
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Date: 2005-09-13 01:38 pm (UTC)The more I uncover on 'green' fuels the more I learn about other countries having already got there. Elsewhere in the EU many busses are already run on biodiesel. What does the average person here know about it? Everything comes from the top, without commitment from the top down there's no reason or incentive for the huge corporations to take upon themselves a greener attitude.
And as Thalyi points out, we do at least require yearly emissions tests and road safety checks, engines taxed according to pollution output, and thankfully we in the UK don't have a culture of 5mpg oversized engines. Despite this effort we're still taxed to buggery though. I hear plenty about the duty being there to counter environmental damage - I hear nothing about exactly what remedies that pays for. A governement that cares? Hardly.