This whole trade a car in for £2000 nonsense really makes my blood boil. Once again the pillocks in charge have completely missed the point. I have an 8 year old Nissan 2.0 16v primera, and at the moment im averaging 41.4mpg over the last tank of fairly mixed driving. It runs well, doesnt cause me any bother. It stands to reason a 10 year old example of the same car would do much the same. So what they are proposing, is that i turn in my nice 40mpg car, cause more waste and energy loss in scrapping a perfectly good car, and replace it with a modern car that will give me about 40mpg? if they did their sums they would realise that the creation of one single new car, causes more harm to the environment than if i drove my car for another 50 years. What they should be doing is the exact bloody opposite of what they are doing. they should be actively encouraging people TO drive old cars, with incentives and cost benefits for those willing to run, and look after older cars. Get car manufacturers to stop making so many bloody new cars, that just sit in huge giant aircraft hangers in luton, because no one is buying them. Once again, they get it completely arse about face, and the tax payer will pick up the bill for it. Don't even get me started on the budget, and the need to add yet more duty to the cost of petrol, its nothing but sheer unadultarated greed, and it punished those of us (like me) who simply cannot exist without a car. I don't live anywhere near any public transport, and in order to get to work each day i rely on my car, which every year that goes past, costs me more and more to do so. perhaps if they need to raise a few extra quid, they can stop dipping their hands into the pockets of public money to pay for pornography, second homes, new kitchens and paying their sons neighbours dogs to lick envelopes for them. Tossers!! Heres a few radical ideas (and im about to make some enemies here i suspect) 1) charge obese people more national insurance, to put towards health costs, as obesity is an enormous drain on the NHS... if your considered obese, lose weight or pay up. 2) make cigarettes so obscenely expensive that people either have to give up, or if they can afford to pay for them, it will cover the additional health costs that once again, smokers put onto the NHS. 3) making booze more expensive is at least one half intelligent idea they have. Its a leisure product, by no means necessary, and if people want to get drunk, make it cost them the earth. just a few ideas that wont win me any popularity contest amonst the overweight, bar frequenting smokers amongst us. But it would certainly free up a few billion pounds a year thats spent on healthcare for all of the above groups. but knowing out government, they will just use it to bail out some other company that should frankly have been able to save itself.
