The mayor of London has written to me !!

Win win really isn't it' they reduce vehicles from 100'000 per day to 50'000 per day meaning they cut pollution by 50% but still bank 12 and a half notes from the 50'000 that still go into the city' Kerching.

 

You can now have a new Badger Card which entitles you to go underground.

 

Audi, BMW or Merc?

Edit; Not meant to be insulting, merely tongue in cheek.

Further edit; I could add all 4x4s to the above list.

 

I bought a second hand diesel car as a stop-gap, as while I want to go electric ASAP, I still have doubts about the practicalities, especially as we don't have a private driveway right now. It's a Volvo, who have always been at the forefront of making cleaner diesel engines. But they're still not that clean, whichever way you look at it. However, public transport in this country is so awful that I still use the car more than I'd like.

Around Lincoln I walk or cycle whenever possible, but the bus service is quite shoddy unfortunately. Yesterday was a case in point, where we ended up having to drive somewhere, despite not wanting to. Family barbecue in a place near Sleaford which is on the railway and on a bus route. We wanted to drink, obviously, and had planned to take the train. There was a strike, and to compound matters, the Lincoln to Sleaford bus wasn't running either, so we had absolutely no choice other than to use the car. It's an absolute **** show.

 

He's written to me too.. late 2014 Honda Civic 1.6d, real world 69mpg on a run, 59 MPG local running, no road tax... supposed to be as green as green can be when I got it... £12.50 to pay now.

 

Public transport in the UK used to be the envy of the world. Now it's pitiful - outside London of course.

 

He's not written to me yet, what have I done to offend him?

 

Meanwhile in other, totally unrelated news, southern europe continues to burn and temperature records are being smashed all over the globe.

 

As a 2014 diesel, it would be Euro5 rather than Euro6 - which they want. The Euro5 standard emits more of the gases they are trying to reduce - and it isn't particularly the greenhouse gases, but those that are bad for those with asthma - so NOx rather than CO2.