| We already have the most heavily taxed fuel in the western world, if only fuel tax, road tax, VAT on vehicles were spent on the roads, we have the best netowrk in the world.
Around 70% of fuel costs are tax.
Electric vehicles are not the way forward IMHO, where does the electic come from?? that flipping great gas/coal powered station. what do you do with the huge batteries when they come to the end of their life, another environmental time.
It's too easy to bash the internal combustion engine and its fuel but over the years it has been developed into a very efficient technology.
Medium to long term fuel cells are going to be the way forward, it's really gonna hack the tree huggers off when all that trickles out of the exhaust is a bit of H2O.
The science behind most scares is shakey to say the least, it's not that long ago we were all gonna be Dead from Aids or BSE is it? At one time there was school of thought that said a human being could survive if they travelled at more than 20 MPH
Sure the world is warming up but trying to separate cyclical changes, form mans effects is guesswork at best.
Good science is based on experiments that can be done, the results are measurable and consistent.
Planet earth may be akin to an experiment in some views and maybe just one day it's all going to go horribly wrong, but don't discount the ingenuity of the race to fix the problem when we are 100% sure what the cause is rather than the effect.
Ray.  |