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Old 02-04-08, 01:02 PM   #18
yorkie_chris
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Default Re: Motorcycle Carbon footprint.

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Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel View Post
When the government want you to throw away a 5 year old vehicle so you can replace it with a new one that produces 0.01% less CO2 so they can hit some ****ing target to avoid an EU fine that THEY signed us up to in the first place, I have no faith in anything we're told.
Government at the moment seems to reckon that the general public is there to serve them, rather than vice versa. Profiteering tossers.


The one that made me laugh/cringe is some bunch of idiots around uni wanting to cut funding to engineering on the basis that accepting funding from military industries is "unethical" and "we're a bunch of petrolheads" Completely missing the point that things like the formula student racing is where a great deal of new research into making vehicles more environmentally friendly goes on. F1 and KERS is another technology which will eventually make its way down to normal cars, but the loonies want to ban as the noise scares their gange plants or some other such crap.
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