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UK Climate Change Committee Targets Motorists
The UK’s unilateral Climate Change Act (2008) was passed without any properly mapped out or costed plan of how the 2020 interim target of a 34% and the 2050 target of an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions would be achieved. Instead, a Committee on Climate Change was set up after the act was passed in order to advise the government on how to build a ‘low carbon economy.’ The committee is described as’ independent,’ yet it is loaded with New Labour cronies, alarmists, global warming industry beneficiaries, and ‘Green Alliance’ members, leaning well to the left. Policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr has published a peer reviewed critique of the Climate Change Act that he describes as “on course to fail.”
The committee’s latest ‘progress report‘ was published on 12th October and it was the plans for motorists that made newspaper headlines, for example:
The Times: ‘Tax motorists more to help save the planet, Government is urged’
Daily Mail: ‘Drivers should be forced to pay per mile to save the planet, finds climate watchdog’
Among the measures demanded are:
(8,000 more wind turbines)
£1.50 per mile road pricing
60 mph limits on motorways
compulsory Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) (GPS controlled speed limiter)
£800m subsidy for electric (Noddy?) cars
Cars contribute to about 11% of the UK’s less than 2% contribution to global man-made CO2 emissions. So, all this shows is what we already knew – socialism doesn’t like the motor car, which it sees as one of the last bastions of freedom.
(Proof that Turkeys do vote for Christmas is here.)