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I saw this on another site and it really got me thinking that if we do not start to counter the current wave of anti car propoganda pretty soon we may regret our inaction!
When we had the fuel protests in the UK a few years ago the Government was shaken by the effects and the strength of feeling and sympathy the fuel protesters were shown, but things have moved on over the last week, the fight now is not only about the extortionate amount of tax we are forced to pay on our fuel, it is about our right to be able to drive and own our cars at all.
This spineless lot of politicians we are cursed with all seem to have caved in to the scaremongering bleatings of the green lobby and their latest hysteria about so called climate change, note that it used to be global cooling with a second ice age imminent, then it was global warming , then they covered al the angles and called it climate change just to make sure any of their crackpot theories fitted the latest buzzword.
Sad to say that all the mainstream political parties seem to have been suckered in by these snake oil salesmen who for the main live in London and never NEEDED to own a car because they never get out of the London underground area, their anti car crusade has naturally been seized upon as the next big revenue raiser for tax crazy Labour under the excuse of environmental protection.
We will (UNLESS we start to make a bigger noise than the greenies) see road pricing, higher fuel costs and all except the wealthy few will be priced out of their cars and back to queueing for a bus in the rain!. Just think about it for a minute, you will not be able to nip out for that item you forgot,you will be tied to bus timetables to get around , many would not be able to get to work (remember we live in a 24 hour society now) not everyone starts at 9 and finishes at 5, many of us live many miles from where we work.
The idea of being robbed of our RIGHTS to mobility is too awful to contemplate, yet this is what is going to happen IF the greenies get their way. We are sleepwalking into a way of life that died out over 50 years ago, IF global warming does take place nothing we do in our Island will make the slightest difference to the outcome.
We are supposed to be responsible for 2% (and falling) of the world CO2 output and transport is responsible for a small percentage of that 2%, and that is transport as a whole! (cars, aircraft, trains busses, ships) so our cars in fact have next to no impact on worldwide CO2 levels, yet the greenies try and make out if we were all forced out of our cars in the UK everything would be ok! what a pack of lies!!.
The truth is that these greenies have always been anti car and now they think they have found an excuse to bully us out of our hard won and hard worked for freedoms. The media is awash with these people and their propoganda, we are being softened up and brainwashed by their constant bleating, there are many scientists and experts who disagree with the greenies but they are not given the same oppotunities and TV and radio airtime to tell us their theories because the government does not want us to know the truth, (that would not be as good for revenue raising).
The only way to stop this threat to our freedoms is by convincing the politicians that it will not be in their interests to support these anti car measures, and the best way to convince a politicin is to let Him/Her know what the price of backing anti car policies will be at election time!.
Turkeys DO NOT vote for Christmas , if they think they will be voted out they might just have the common sense to realise that it will not be in their interests to tax us out of cars, BUT we cannot afford to leave this until the next general election we need to start right now, BOMBARD your MP with e mails and letters telling them not to back any more anti car measures get all you families and friends to do the same, let them know the strength of feeling in the country about these disgraceful proposals warn them they will be looking for a job after the next election if they do not start to take notice and defend our rights to mobility.
If we all make a big enough noise we can still defeat the threat that is looming, after all a few hundred thousand yobs defeated the poll tax (which was a whole lot fairer tax than the anti car taxes we now face) so imagine what we could acheive when MILLIONS realise the impact that these measures would have on their liberties,freedom to travel and way of life if WE allow them to be implemented.
WE can fight and stop this, but we ALL need to act before things go too far down the pan
When we had the fuel protests in the UK a few years ago the Government was shaken by the effects and the strength of feeling and sympathy the fuel protesters were shown, but things have moved on over the last week, the fight now is not only about the extortionate amount of tax we are forced to pay on our fuel, it is about our right to be able to drive and own our cars at all.
This spineless lot of politicians we are cursed with all seem to have caved in to the scaremongering bleatings of the green lobby and their latest hysteria about so called climate change, note that it used to be global cooling with a second ice age imminent, then it was global warming , then they covered al the angles and called it climate change just to make sure any of their crackpot theories fitted the latest buzzword.
Sad to say that all the mainstream political parties seem to have been suckered in by these snake oil salesmen who for the main live in London and never NEEDED to own a car because they never get out of the London underground area, their anti car crusade has naturally been seized upon as the next big revenue raiser for tax crazy Labour under the excuse of environmental protection.
We will (UNLESS we start to make a bigger noise than the greenies) see road pricing, higher fuel costs and all except the wealthy few will be priced out of their cars and back to queueing for a bus in the rain!. Just think about it for a minute, you will not be able to nip out for that item you forgot,you will be tied to bus timetables to get around , many would not be able to get to work (remember we live in a 24 hour society now) not everyone starts at 9 and finishes at 5, many of us live many miles from where we work.
The idea of being robbed of our RIGHTS to mobility is too awful to contemplate, yet this is what is going to happen IF the greenies get their way. We are sleepwalking into a way of life that died out over 50 years ago, IF global warming does take place nothing we do in our Island will make the slightest difference to the outcome.
We are supposed to be responsible for 2% (and falling) of the world CO2 output and transport is responsible for a small percentage of that 2%, and that is transport as a whole! (cars, aircraft, trains busses, ships) so our cars in fact have next to no impact on worldwide CO2 levels, yet the greenies try and make out if we were all forced out of our cars in the UK everything would be ok! what a pack of lies!!.
The truth is that these greenies have always been anti car and now they think they have found an excuse to bully us out of our hard won and hard worked for freedoms. The media is awash with these people and their propoganda, we are being softened up and brainwashed by their constant bleating, there are many scientists and experts who disagree with the greenies but they are not given the same oppotunities and TV and radio airtime to tell us their theories because the government does not want us to know the truth, (that would not be as good for revenue raising).
The only way to stop this threat to our freedoms is by convincing the politicians that it will not be in their interests to support these anti car measures, and the best way to convince a politicin is to let Him/Her know what the price of backing anti car policies will be at election time!.
Turkeys DO NOT vote for Christmas , if they think they will be voted out they might just have the common sense to realise that it will not be in their interests to tax us out of cars, BUT we cannot afford to leave this until the next general election we need to start right now, BOMBARD your MP with e mails and letters telling them not to back any more anti car measures get all you families and friends to do the same, let them know the strength of feeling in the country about these disgraceful proposals warn them they will be looking for a job after the next election if they do not start to take notice and defend our rights to mobility.
If we all make a big enough noise we can still defeat the threat that is looming, after all a few hundred thousand yobs defeated the poll tax (which was a whole lot fairer tax than the anti car taxes we now face) so imagine what we could acheive when MILLIONS realise the impact that these measures would have on their liberties,freedom to travel and way of life if WE allow them to be implemented.
WE can fight and stop this, but we ALL need to act before things go too far down the pan
