Taking the micky ?

[FIL 4822]

On my way home tonight, listening to the local BBC radio station, comes the story about a former boss of BP (i think it was) who said
"All new cars should be able to do at least 35 mpg, anything lower and it shouldn't be allowed on our roads !"

If this ever happened, most folks would naturally switch to a diesel.
Then the price would rocket to twice what it is now and we'd all get shafted again !

TAX - TAX - TAX ! Wheres Robin Hood when you need him ???

[bigknill]

And what's the betting that he's said that having benefited from being chauffeured around in a dirty great Merc or Beemer when head of the oil giant? I have no doubts his healthy pension is, in part, paid for by the average punter filling up his car.....

[BIG NEIL]

cockhead spring to mind

[ccsnet]

I can see the theory but those in the US will be stuffed....

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Terran

PS You lot seen the news about Londons low emisions thing - I didnt know about that one....

[ed taylor]

Yeh £200 a day for a large lorry.

[sonic]

Same fella just been on the news driving a 'I'm holier than thou, Toyota Prius'.
My mates wife has one as a Co. car and gets around 40MPG...big deal!
You get better than that in a diesel Vec.

[simon5800]

Same fella just been on the news driving a 'I'm holier than thou, Toyota Prius'.
My mates wife has one as a Co. car and gets around 40MPG...big deal!
You get better than that in a diesel Vec.

that and the back end of the prius are dog ugly, well in my opinon. henever i look at it, it hurts my eyes were talking about it in one of my economics things at uni, lecturer said that its going to be put forard in europe, and how it will ruin ones like BMW etc who do high powerd cars

here's a link for you news

[mickeyc]

I take offence to the title of this thread

[VauxVeteran]

that and the back end of the prius are dog ugly, well in my opinon. henever i look at it, it hurts my eyes were talking about it in one of my economics things at uni, lecturer said that its going to be put forard in europe, and how it will ruin ones like BMW etc who do high powerd cars

here's a link for you news

I saw one today and it has been styled by someone who worked for British Leyland in the 70's, as for the tech of the car it lets itself down by kicking the engine back in at 30mph, had they up'd this to say 40mph they would be on a winner as the 40mpg would probably rise to 60+ for urban users, as for BMW they ain't stupid I believe they are launching Hydrogen cars in 2010, and I hope it ends the monopoly the oil companies hold right now, us commoner's will get the same tech from Toyota and Honda because all these companies are progressive and move forwards, LPG is still a good alternative to 100% fossil fuel, but instead of encouraging it our leaders make no attempt to lower the fitting cost or make it so cheap it's impossible to ignore, the average conversion costs £2000, this is for a fuel tank a strip of nozzles and an ECU, I bet the whole lit costs no more than £100 to manufacture, if you could get it fitted for £800 it would be a very good option, and to finish off, the reason fossil fuel is so expensive now is because of the smoking ban, they know they are gonna be hugely out of pocket at the end of the financial year and are getting the losses back from us motorists, notice I'm here rather than at work, the reason is I'm not prepared to sit in a car for 5 hours on a Monday to take £20, and this is because smokers are staying home and non smokers that were supposed to take up the slack in the new super clean pub enviroment are doing what they always did, stay indoors and go to bed at 10:30pm.

[yorkshireborn]

LPG is one of the fastest fuels thats raising in price ive seen at some forcourts its 54.9.
also if im not mistaken the goverment are removing the tax freeze on it so it will shoot up in price very soon.