Smaller cars, bigger sales
Monday 9th June 2008, 2:30PM BST.
The Hyundai i10 is the sort of small car which has helped boost registrations in the mini range in the UK by 120% in May. (Picture by www.automotoportal.com, 0589693)
DRIVERS are swapping 4x4s for smaller cars due to the rising cost of fuel, according to the motor trade.
In the UK, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said 4×4 registrations fell by 18% in May compared with the same month last year. anwhile, registrations of cars in the mini category, such as the Hyundai i10 and Chevrolet Matiz, rose by 120%.
In Guernsey, Jacksons manager Gerve Brazier said people were downsizing. ‘Some of the smaller cars are more luxurious and better equipped, so people are not losing out in terms of comfort.
‘Guernsey’s roads are small too, so if you can get everything you need in a smaller car, then why not?’ Minis, Smart Cars and Volkswagen Golfs and Polos, as well as Audi and BMW convertibles, were increasingly popular, said Mr Brazier. ‘In my experience people are looking more and more to diesel because of its superior fuel economy.’
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If the States were really concerned about climate change then they would be offering incentives not punishments for reducing CO2 emissions in the form of tax breaks. But tax breaks aren’t a giant cash bonanza for our exalted guardians of Mother Earth, the loving government, who are going to tax the living hell out of us for our own good and for the very survival of mankind, while lining their own pockets.
Interestingly in 2007 the TaxPayers’ Alliance studying the UK, was published alongside a new YouGov poll of more than 2,000 adults (double the usual sample) was commissioned into public attitudes towards green taxes.
When asked what they thought the primary motivation was for new green taxes, 63 per cent agreed with the statement: “Politicians are not serious about the environment and are using the issue as an excuse to raise more revenue from green taxes.” Only 20 per cent thought that “Politicians are serious about the environment and are bringing in new green taxes to change people’s behaviour to help reduce carbon emissions.”
Recently we have seen proposals in the UK and the US to impose steep new taxes that would raise the cost of burning oil, gas and coal even at a time when the cost of energy is already through the roof.
Such calls for a carbon tax on energy have been echoed by globalist groups such as the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group whose members are coincidentally made up of many big energy company heads and CEOs who stand to gain from long term hikes in prices to offset an initial drop in demand that a new tax would bring.
Global warming also acts as a convenient veil for the real environmental crimes that will continue on behalf of the mega corporations and scientific establishment that are in bed with the very government imposing draconian measures on us in the name of the environment. GM contamination, toxic waste dumping, bizarre cloning mad science, and the destruction of the rain forests will continue apace while we are still being lectured about light bulbs and beer bottles.
Meanwhile less than half of all published scientists endorse the theory that human activity constitutes a significant contribution to climate change, hardly a “consensus” as the UN appointed panel on climate change calls it.
If the cause is not even agreed upon how is it that the solution is?
Because governments throughout the world love convincing people that they are in danger and that they can only be saved by letting them take control. Globalists imagine and invent problems and then they offer us the solution, but the solution is always more government, more corporate monopoly, less sovereignty and less free market economy.
The global warming tax scam has kicked in. There’s no time left for a debate they tell us – we don’t want to hear about the medieval warm period, we don’t want to hear about how temperatures dropped as carbon emissions increased for four decades from the 40′s to the 80′s, we don’t want to hear about how the troposphere shows no build up of greenhouse gases, we don’t want to hear about sun activity and its direct correlation with climate change, we don’t want to hear about arctic ice samples showing how CO2 lags behind temperature increase. There’s money to be made and there’s peasants to flog.
Eco-fanatics and power-hungry elitists have taken total control of the global warming bandwagon. Before they choke the life out of modern industrialized civilization by eliminating the source of 80% of the planet’s energy, and in the face of fierce silencing techniques, it is vital to further understand why scientific evidence is not on the side of the theory of human-caused warming.
Wake up Guernsey residents, don’t jump on the same bandwagon!
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