Originally Posted by 156Chris
It's been a while since we've had a CO2 thread (must be almost a week!!!) ...
... as far as I can tell there is no thought for the environment, it's ALL about the tax ... if CO2 was really that bad, then why isn't the government trying to encourage biofuels ... after all when you grow the crops for biofuels that actually take CO2 out of the air ... this would make cars actually carbon neutral ...
... of course the tax on biofuels go up at the same rate as the oil based fuels ..
oh well
* Sits back and waits for HST to respond *
I totally agree that the government have grabbed the issue with both hands and use it as a tax stick to hit everyone with.
but forgetting biofuels, why, when we've had the technology to mass produce and run electric, zero-emmission vehicles capable of 100mph+ and sub 8 second 0-60mph performance since the late 1980's, are we still driving round using technology that has it's roots in the 1800's?
Because for too long there's been too many people of power with their hands in too many pies.
Now the environmental lobbying has grown to the size that it can't be ignored, the clever politicians have turned it into taxable opportunity number 1.
And the tax hikes raise the publics vitriol at the environmental lobby, instead of at the politico's themselves, and the with regard to that actual situation, status quo is maintained.
the public lose, the environmental lobby lose. The governments win. Again.
