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By Peter McMahon, published 28/6/2007Cut speed limits and get unnecessary, big, four-wheel-drive cars off the roads.
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But what’s the point? People are still driving 4WD’s, one-up, from inner suburbs, to their jobs in the city, where they park the things all day in concrete, multi-storey monstrosities.
The author says, “Governments should…..” blah, blah, blah just like all the others before him who think (sorry, know!) they have all the answers.
The problems with these ‘answers’ is that they rely on the heavy hand of government; the good old nanny state. As if governments are going to do what Peter McMahon says they should do. They would be chucked out of office quick time.
Personally, I think that anyone who drives a car with an engine bigger than 1.5 litres is a twit. My own daughter has just taken delivery of the biggest-engined car available. But, people have to take responsibility for what happens in their society and, if we do run out of oil, tough titty.
Peter would be much better off, as would we all, by refraining from telling others what to do (and living with the consequences of what they do) and regulating his own behaviour in a way he sees fit.
From the environment point of view, oil-produced emissions and their effect on the climate and all that waffle will prove to be a hoax eventually. And, if we have to find viable alternatives to oil (as opposed to the current Mickey Mouse stuff), then the problem will be solved by free enterprise movers and shakers – not by Peter’s authoritarian nanny-state and pursed lip tutting each time we see someone driving a ridiculously overpowered and unnecessary vehicle.