Don't scare the Horses!

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My next door neighbour just bought a used BMW 435D XDRIVE M SPORT AUTO.

Power 308 bhp
Top Speed 155 mph
0-60 mph 4.5 secs
Torque 630 Nm, 465 ft-lb
CO2 Emissions 146 g/km
Euro Emissions Standard 6
Miles Per Tank 627 miles

Just looking at the specs it's remarkably economical for such a fast car managing 40 to 50 mpg. It's even ULEZ compliant!

Peter

ULEZ is about local air quality so less people have chronic diseases or die. It's not about an overall life-cycle environmental impact.

No it's not, it's about money. If it was about air quality, they wouldn't say the same cars can come in but pay for it - you'd not be allowed to drive in. Plus air travels - see the Saharan sand storm dust which we get in the UK....

Well... ULEZ is about improving air quality. The occasional polluting car, traction engine, motor bike, will not make much difference. But 100,000 of them will.

So, the idea is to control pollution by putting in a strong deterrant, the ULEZ charge, to reduce the numbers of the pollutors.

If that doesn't work, then yes I guess there could be bans introduced. But so far the charge is working

It's a tax on the poor - you can still carry on doing it, but pay to.

Also there is little to no evidence to support it. TFL has been found to have misled the people and lied to the London Assembly then asked scientists to lie in a report after their report couldn't find any evidence to support its effectiveness. Currently there is still an ongoing investigation over the misinformation TFL has made to push this tax through to plug their financial black hole.

I want Thames Water to stop throwing raw sewage into the sea - I want them to stop, I don't want them to pay me to carry on doing it, because it shouldn't happen in the first place.