Not all climate change policies are good for the environment. And not surprisingly the UK government is behind one of the worst. Currently UK Cars are taxed by CO2 emissions. You would think this is a good idea except it means vehicles with diesel engines pay less tax than the same vehicle with a petrol engine. Is that a good thing? Well it depends whether you have your own private air supply or not.
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/c ... -pollution
http://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ution-case
My rule of thumb is this. Would the technology have still been brought in if it was carbon neutral rather than cutting CO2 emissions?
I've heard good things about solar, and thorium based nuclear plants sound like they are actually fail safe. Electric Cars will eventually be better than petrol vehicles in all aspects.
There are a lot of good technologies that also happen to be low CO2 and so get extra government resources and I don't have a problem with that. Its the lower CO2 at any cost attitude that is a problem as the diesel car issue will testify.
Mark
edit fixed broken link
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/c ... -pollution
http://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ution-case
My rule of thumb is this. Would the technology have still been brought in if it was carbon neutral rather than cutting CO2 emissions?
I've heard good things about solar, and thorium based nuclear plants sound like they are actually fail safe. Electric Cars will eventually be better than petrol vehicles in all aspects.
There are a lot of good technologies that also happen to be low CO2 and so get extra government resources and I don't have a problem with that. Its the lower CO2 at any cost attitude that is a problem as the diesel car issue will testify.
Mark
edit fixed broken link