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GWIZZZ, 5,000 FOR METAL MICKEY!
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No, it isn't an online auction to sell off the scary metal freak from last century; it is the latest entrapment of green policies Westminster has thrown onto the environment heap, the Electric car, which has been around for fours years already.

Firstly, the green issue
There is one matter that we cannot control apart from Sir Fred Goodwin's pension or MP's expenses, and that is climate change. It is shocking that over the last 25 years we have now a generation that has been aware of global warming and CO2 emissions, and yet have not clamped down on the corporate giant perpetrators, by introducing green taxes half a century ago. If Westminster imposed this tax the UK would be leading the world in climate change and the US would have been forced to tow the line also. Yet we have wasted time. Time we cannot afford to lose. Our politicians have been bathing in wealth from the super rich companies who have systematically exploded billions of carbon emissions into the atmosphere without any concerns of an iron-fist green regulatory body on their cases. It all sounds too familiar doesn't it! Now the wealth has been handed back by Westminster to ailing banks in their own words 'to protect the taxpayer'. So where are the funds to protect us from a mightier force being 'climate change?' By not having green taxes in-place for a quarter of a century another financial black-hole has appeared in redeeming this serious matter; and it doesn't depend on world market share-prices.

GWizzz, 5,000 for 'Metal Mickey
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I am an avid believer in green policies and I feel this should be a good green ethical one when it comes to greener motoring and CO2 emissions; yet I grasp at whether it is right that the government to levy this through at such a pace, because the incentives of cash will not be ready till 2011 or maybe 2012. To put it bluntly the technology was available in the mid 1980's. One of the earliest forms of electric transport was Sir Clive Sinclair's C4 death-trap, it was a knee-high three wheeler with as much style as a drunk Russell Crowe balancing on a bar-stool. The concept was 'spot-on' but the execution was like watching a banker sealing a risky deal, it was all wrong. No one has seen Sir Clive since as he was carted off to the funny farm, whose have the last laugh now eh?

At the moment the whole pipe dream is just a sound-bite to us normal folk, Metal Mickey and a Gwiz, I can't see any difference except in London as there are now 1900

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