Wouldn't it just be better to ban gas guzzlers?

Question

Or would that be unpopular and lose votes???

I'm all for personal freedom, but how long can we allow people who don't care to drive gas guzzling cars, 4x4s and SUVs and the like, just because they can aford it.
I ordered a chinese meal the other day... the guy delivered it was driving a BMW 5 series 3 litre!! If I knew before hand I would have cycled down and collected it myself!!! Geez!!

Answer 1

Yes, as long as its Global. I have been to America and just got back from Canada. The cars and pick-up trucks they drive make our 4 x 4s look tiny. I am a Labour supporter but the so called green taxes would lose my vote unless the Government can convince me that every penny raised in extra revenue will be be used to fight Global warming and its effects and not just a excuse to increase the coffers of the Chancellor.

Answer 2

No. We are supposed to live in a free country. The more I hear the phrase 'It should be banned' the more I fear some people are trying to reduce that freedom. What it normally boils down to is I don't like it therefore it shouldn't be allowed.
People driving gas guzzling cars are no more responsible for climate change than those who don't have double glazing or those who use disposible nappies, those who clear wood lands to plant crops or build houses or even people who oppose using nuclear power. Even then I am still not convinced that the climate would not be changing anyway regardless of the actions of man. After all there was a time millions of years ago when there were no polar ice caps and water covered 4/5 ths of the earths surface. It was known as the Jurassic period and was about 100 million years before an existed. It happened before, why would it not happen again?

Yes it would be unpopular and yes it would lose votes. How the hell would farmers manage? How would people who live in the country in remote rural areas cope when there was snow?
Personally I think people who drive chelsea tractors in towns are inconsiderate and selfish. Not because of emmisions but because of the shear size ot the vehilce and the space it takes up. Then there is the issue about safety. A big 4x4 would wipe out most smaller cars out in a crash so I don't feel very safe when some fool in a 4x4 tailgates me on the motorway. But you can't start making laws to ban things because they are inconsiderate or you don't like them. We have to be objective not subjective.

Answer 3

They'll never do that. Think of all the money the companies who make import and sell these things make. The Government are desperate to placate the rich.

So instead they try to blame Global warming on little old Mr Jones down the road, telling him not to leave his lights or drive his car to the shops.

All the while Tony and his cronies drive big flash cars (like Two Jags), pop off around the word in the private jets and live in big houses which cost £100,000s a year to heat. When was the last time you saw THEM worrying about the credit on their gas or electric token meter running out or standing in the rain at the bus stop at 7am on January morning waiting for the number 32?

Does the word "hypocrite" mean anything here?

Answer 4

Its all about the engine really.

Green taxes will make 4x4 et al to expensive to run. This will make car manufactures produce more fuel efficient cars (either that or sell nothing).

better engines in any car will lowering the cost of green taxes and reducing harm to the environment - in the future, this will be the big selling point. also different types of fuels will become available etc etc,

so baning the gas guzzler engine will be a good idea, but manufactures need research and development time and governments will give them the time - either that or more job losses, and that WILL be a vote looser

Answer 5

There are millions of people that live in rural areas of the country that could not get their children to school, or themselves to work without 4X4's. The school bus does not come into the area I live so my daughter has to meet the bus at the entrance. It is over a mile from our house. When it snows I either have 4 wheel drive or she stays home. I also cannot get to work. How about this? Ban all cars inside major cities? There is alot of public transport there. Lower all the speed limits to 50 MPH to save gas and lower fatalities, especially in those little cracker box cars.

Answer 6

Yes ban all gas guzzlers, let the farmers drive a Micra across muddy fields and dales.

Course not, there are people that need big cars, 4x4, MPVs etc out of necessity not just for the school run.

Answer 7

Yes, for the future. We should be engineering alternative energy use vehicles, anyway on a grand scale. We have the technology, but because of Big Oil, who has stifled it strenuously, it has begun slowly and has been mostly developed in more of a Grass Roots manner and effort than the major corporations.

No, it would not be unpoplar and lose votes with the masses, just with Big Oil.

Answer 8

Did you know that the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil.....

No government wants to upset the manufactures, after all it's where they get most of there pay (it's called a bung), it is a lot easier to sort out pollution and the environment by gouging the public out of more money for using the products instead of sorting out the products themselves...

Answer 9

You will still have to have massive transports, but on a personal level I agree with what you are saying. People don't have to drive Hummers, and Duellys to get from A to B. It's wasteful and there should be a luxury tax at best.

Answer 10

When the constitution was born, the framers wanted to limit government involvement in our lives. Why is it that you people insist on more government control? Anything that the government gets involved in usually gets screwed up anyway!