Blindingly obvious to me. Also applies to:
Half empty transit vans doing 90mph
Cars with general rubbish in the boot
Speed humps
Traffic lights that change to red when I'm approaching
A recommendation that we all take a dump before a journey will soon be upon us!
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This is why the personal carbon trading system works .
Your basic chavvy council house scrote (not to be confused with the decent old school council house dweller) lives on chips, crisps, pizza and any other processed food which can be shoved in a microwave or bought ready to eat.
This is so they can squeeze into shell suits and/or leggings and waddle to Netto to buy more junk and get fatter.
These people can trade their carbon allocation to the olive oil drizzled, rabbit food munching middle classes who can then get their skinny physiques into their low emission leased BMW's which carrying less weight emit less bad environment stuff.
Scrotes get more money to spend on Doritos and desperate social climbers get more trips to this weeks favourite holiday hotspot.
Everyone's a winner.
Probably.
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Possibly a bit harsh to infer that c.h.s. s are less environmentally concious Glacier. In our town there are streets where clearly the green message has been very much embraced. In many cases cars are regularly lightened ( or indeed occasionally lit ) by the removal of unnecessary accessories such as wheels and radios. Smashing of frivoulously extravagant window glass obviates the need for energy wasting aircon systems. The wheel rermoval is presumably also an incentive to discourage unnecessary journeys. Albeit that many are indeed fat, they then often offset the increased fuel usage by maximising car occupancy, sometimes getting as many as six children on the back seat for an outing. It does not stop there, there are even enterprising re-cyclers who utilise ex-car seats as garden furniture and there is a thriving, although admittedly informal, bicycle sharing scheme. Quite wrong to criticise.
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Yeah you're probably right. I apologise.
In fact the estate where my dad lives has a mysterious "Green Bandit", he discourages needless journeys and emphasises how much fuel is used by removing it with a pipe from your car.
I presume he'll put it back later or put it to some environmentally friendly use.
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There's an estate near us that produces kids with excellent green credentials. Rather than wait for a formal launch, they have started their own involuntary car-share scheme, and always manage to ensure that they fill all the seats in the car with others who want to get to the same destination, thus reducing their personal carbon footprint to a minimum.
When they've arrived, they simply leave the car for the next group of people to make use of it. I understand that there is no joining fee, and members do not need to contribute to running costs, which makes it accessible to all income levels. Additionally there seems to be a positive encouragement for those with no educational attainment to join.
As a result, police now spend more time catching more wealthy, better educated drivers when they commit offences that are far more socially and environmentally damaging, such as exceeding the speed limit.
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I was going to edit this thread, but I can't. For sheer comedy value, it stays, until one of the others comes along and tells me off.
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Some of the more environmentally aware car-sharers now use what is now called the the involuntary vehicle decommissioning scheme. Payments to the owner of the vehicle are made by their insurance company less an amount previously called the insurance excess figure, now called an environmental improvement levy.
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As an additional safety measure, automatic cars recognise when their elderly owner should be hanging up their driving gloves. When this feature is triggered the accelerator jams on full throttle (often in reverse) and the car writes itself off.
Edited by Round The Bend on 28/05/2008 at 15:28
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birds take a dump before flight, thats why your cars are covered in carp
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A recommendation that we all take a dump before a journey will soon be uponus!
Can't do both old chap, it's either buy paper or fuel!!
VBR MD
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