I can see your point but would have to disagree. Most people (*I* think) are apathetic towards the whole thing. They are, afterall, our leaders.
We need leaders with a different attitude, that's my whole point. Even the green party seemed to have the wrong idea, and just continue this taxation farce to "protect" the environment with no firm idea of how to do things differently. We need leaders with balls and sights set in the right direction in the first place. Most of us lowly tax payers either don't presently care or are naturally ignorant of what could be done, or has already been done - and burried.
I'm doing my bit - experiments with rapeseed oil in my 8 year old turbodiesel are going well. The carbon I'm putting back is no more than that used to grow the stuff, with no apparant loss of performance. As far as I'm concerned, this is the future. There exists the refined biodiesel version (100% and 5% blended with ordinary diesel), but very few engines can run with it unmodified (due mostly to rubber corrosion than anything funamentally different). Our government are well aware things could change tomorrow, and thousands of people with the right cars already could start filling with easily renewable, much greener biodiesel fuels, and millions of newer cars could be built with only minor modifications, sold with national marketing campaigns to spread awareness of this 'new' wonder-fuel that won't dry up. Every chippy in the land could be paid to recycle their waste oils. So why isn't this happening?
I'm sure it's nothing to do with the lack of excuse for taxing near 50% :-/
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We need leaders with a different attitude, that's my whole point. Even the green party seemed to have the wrong idea, and just continue this taxation farce to "protect" the environment with no firm idea of how to do things differently. We need leaders with balls and sights set in the right direction in the first place. Most of us lowly tax payers either don't presently care or are naturally ignorant of what could be done, or has already been done - and burried.
I'm doing my bit - experiments with rapeseed oil in my 8 year old turbodiesel are going well. The carbon I'm putting back is no more than that used to grow the stuff, with no apparant loss of performance. As far as I'm concerned, this is the future. There exists the refined biodiesel version (100% and 5% blended with ordinary diesel), but very few engines can run with it unmodified (due mostly to rubber corrosion than anything funamentally different). Our government are well aware things could change tomorrow, and thousands of people with the right cars already could start filling with easily renewable, much greener biodiesel fuels, and millions of newer cars could be built with only minor modifications, sold with national marketing campaigns to spread awareness of this 'new' wonder-fuel that won't dry up. Every chippy in the land could be paid to recycle their waste oils. So why isn't this happening?
I'm sure it's nothing to do with the lack of excuse for taxing near 50% :-/