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Post by buccaneer on Mar 24, 2024 0:17:53 GMT
Sorry to disappoint, but it doesn't affect me directly since my vehicles are compliant. I quite agree with the French being taxed to death though. Fuck 'em!😂 DD has some sort of zealous vendetta against motorists. Perhaps he's too old and frail to drive, and expects everyone to shuffle around from place to place like he does. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Mar 24, 2024 0:22:28 GMT
Sorry to disappoint, but it doesn't affect me directly since my vehicles are compliant. I quite agree with the French being taxed to death though. Fuck 'em!😂 DD has a vendetta against drivers almost as much as he does with anyone who isn't white. Perhaps he's too old and frail to drive, and expects everyone to shuffle around from place to place like he does. It's the only conclusion one can come to. But how he expects those he depends on to provide the services he uses is another matter. |
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Post by andrewbrown on Mar 24, 2024 0:41:10 GMT
I use public transport either when going for a night out, or the occasional trip into town. It's simpler and cheaper than parking. It's not my fault that the stop for the buz home is outside a pub...
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 24, 2024 0:44:16 GMT
Going off on a tangent slightly...
I listened to something earlier about electric ambulances in London, well I suppose it doesn't matter where they are but the item was about the London Ambulance Service who have spent £31 million on electric ambulances. Apparently a diesel ambulance pays for itself in five years, but it will take fifteen years for an electric ambulance to pay for itself. The thing is, particularly with the wear and tear they will inevitably get no one expects the battery on an electric ambulance to last fifteen years and replacement batteries cost £12,000. Somebody is making a lot of money out of this, and it's not the tax payer.
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 24, 2024 0:46:26 GMT
I use public transport either when going for a night out, or the occasional trip into town. It's simpler and cheaper than parking. It's not my fault that the stop for the buz home is outside a pub... Very convenient for you Andrew, you say buz! Do you live in the black country? |
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Post by andrewbrown on Mar 24, 2024 0:48:18 GMT
Coventry.
Yes, buz is used a bit around here. One old feature that they used to have on the old Mercia was "On the buz to Bedduth"... 😂
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Mar 24, 2024 1:21:43 GMT
Years ago we used to holiday in a small town on the Med. A charming little place where those locals not servicing the tourist trade worked on the nearby land or fished for a living. And then they came: The wealthy. Pushing up property values and pricing out the locals. But those newcomers still expected an infrastructure. Sadly, the infrastructure providers could no longer afford to live in the area. And watching your £1m property burn down because the nearest fire station is 2 hours away, because no fireman can afford to live anywhere near, must be a sobering experience. And this happened. Same with the local schools, local shops, local bars and local medical facilities. It all went because those workers could no longer afford the area. And it became a soulless, expensive ghost town. Today the same is happening in London. We are in a cost of living crisis. We have a record high tax burden. Many are finding themselves better off on benefits than working - and no wonder when we're taxed simply for going to work. Expensive fares, ULEZ and all of the other bogus environmental levies are all part of it. I am a key worker. You all require the service that I provide. I and many others. And public transport is often not an option for the times and places that we are required to work. Now it doesn't matter to me: I can afford to retire and work is almost a hobby. But there's still a cost benefit equation - I'm not doing this for nothing and if there isn't a satisfactory kickback left after expenses then I'm simply not going to bother. And whoever replaces me will almost certainly need the money so there's even less incentive for them if a sizeable chunk of their salary is eaten up simply getting to work in the first place. So when DD and NV need their bums wiped, or any other service, they may wish to ponder who exactly is going to provide it when we're all sitting on benefits in our 15 minute communities at the behest of a bogus climate change (but really a social control) agenda. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 24, 2024 10:43:14 GMT
Focusing on the somewhat larger picture, rather than fretting over unlikely conspiracy theories, what we should all be concerned about is the future availability of fossil fuels especially for transport. While 'peak oil' (as opposed to peak oil demand) has been temporarily staved off thanks to massive investments in N. America into 'tight' i.e. non-conventional oil and gas production. All the 'easy' oil and gas has been found, now we're working on and consuming the hard-to-get-at resources, an increasingly expensive proposition.
It could well be that peak oil will never actually happen since dwindling reserves that cost more and more to extract will lead inevitably to fossil fuel pricing that we will not be able to afford. That will lead inexorably to the extinction of the gas-guzzling jalopies we find so important today and to alternative modes of transportation and even ways of living.
The smarter amongst us will understand all this and arrange their affairs accordingly. The not-so-smart will cast around for someone to blame.
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 24, 2024 13:05:14 GMT
Going off on a tangent slightly... I listened to something earlier about electric ambulances in London, well I suppose it doesn't matter where they are but the item was about the London Ambulance Service who have spent £31 million on electric ambulances. Apparently a diesel ambulance pays for itself in five years, but it will take fifteen years for an electric ambulance to pay for itself. The thing is, particularly with the wear and tear they will inevitably get no one expects the battery on an electric ambulance to last fifteen years and replacement batteries cost £12,000. Somebody is making a lot of money out of this, and it's not the tax payer. EVs currently make sense for "mopeds" small city-cars and "family cars"; they make bugger all sense for most other things. All The Best |
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 24, 2024 13:58:55 GMT
If the ULEZ and expansion thereof were not a pet project of the Muslim mayor of London, what would be the objection to it/them? Are you referring to ULEZ or the 20mph speed limits The former is a tax on any resident who requires the service of a tradesmen who has to being equipment or materials to the residence that will not comfortably fit in a vehicle aboe to pass the tests. It is a demand on those tradesmen to ppotlessly waste money on vehicles that are otherwise unnessessary.
The latter is just barking mad. Any petrol or diesel vehicle forced to drive at 20 when designed to operate at far higher speeds is goinfg to see their engines rotate a larger number of times per yard n the lower gear at 20 than they would in the higher gear at 30, or higher, and take at least half as long again to do it.
The village of caerleon up the road imposed a 20mph limit some years ago
It is a fact that if i ignore it and do 35 in fourth, both my former diesel suzuki and my current diesel dacia duster, designed to run on less than optimal roads at those speeds in fourth gear, will deposit almost half the pollution they will when forced to do round in in the 2nd/3rd mismash at 20. I know this from watching my rev counter and clocking my time
Saddo Khant's ethnicity is utterly fuck all to do with it.
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 24, 2024 14:02:33 GMT
Good and not before time. Driving when and where you want without regard for anyone else in the area is not a universal human right and certainly not an automatic entitlement. If you insist on doing so then be prepared to pay. That's the way it works in most other major cities in Europe so why should London be exempt. Just because it's a pet project of the Muslim mayor doesn't make it a bad idea. As I said it's not Wyoming where the only thing competing for road space is the occasional tumbleweed. Well the thing is then, are londoners prepated to pay for the increased charges a tradesman imposes if they have to come to their home I'm buggered it I am going to help any labour voter in wales or anyone in Bristol's Car zone, or buy anything from them, if i can help it, because i think they deserve to suffer the full impact of their antics. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 24, 2024 14:07:04 GMT
I use public transport either when going for a night out, or the occasional trip into town. It's simpler and cheaper than parking. It's not my fault that the stop for the buz home is outside a pub... I wish i had the option At my age ANY trip on ANY bus in wales is FREE. If buses existed going to and from where i need to get to at times i needed, and allowed me to bring the equipment i needed to bring, why the hel would i NOT use them As i said to Cardiff Bus only last week in a complaint to their customer service desk
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Post by jonksy on Mar 24, 2024 14:14:27 GMT
I see the ECO nut jobs are even crawling up the UN's arse to protect their right to protest. Just grease theirpalms with silver as that will get you everything from the corrupt and useless UN... Environmental activists Just Stop Oil calling on UN to defend their 'human right to protest'....
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 24, 2024 14:34:18 GMT
Are you referring to ULEZ or the 20mph speed limits The former is a tax on any resident who requires the service of a tradesmen who has to being equipment or materials to the residence that will not comfortably fit in a vehicle aboe to pass the tests. It is a demand on those tradesmen to ppotlessly waste money on vehicles that are otherwise unnessessary.
Saddo Khant's ethnicity is utterly fuck all to do with it. The ULEZ, I know nothing about 20 mph limits.
As for tradesman charging more for working in a ULEZ, I'd ask what's new. They charge for everything they can anyway. As the mayor once said, 'It's part and parcel of living in a big city'.
I agree with your remark about his ethnicity. The idea behind and implementation of low-emission zones in cities should stand or fall on their own merits and not because they are being promoted (or opposed) by a particularly unlikeable figure.
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 24, 2024 14:37:15 GMT
I am a key worker. You all require the service that I provide. I and many others. And public transport is often not an option for the times and places that we are required to work. That's a very important point When they decided that only "key workers" were allowed to travel during the plague, I was one of the permitted, because people get angry when they can't order things online because they can't travel to get money to shop for the things they needed. And although I've only been doing this for about seven in total of the what forty one years i've worked, and there have only been three server outages while i was doing this, all those outages happened at between 1am and 3am There are no buses at those times, There are no trains either and all the taxis are busy chargig drunks tiple rate and hosing out the vomit afterwards
Next time I see the emergency alert message i might stop and ask "how many greens and labour voters are impacted" and crawl back into bed if most of those impacted are anti-motorist
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