U Turn Is The New Forward

While they've been around the reduced motor tax rates for cars with low emissions have encouraged people to buy new cars. This is a fact because the annual savings in many cases are substantial.

So how green is the actual manufacture of the car, how many fewer green cars would have had to be built if this incentive to purchase them had not been created? Think about the fabrication emissions that this skewing of market conditions and the building of these cars in the first place created.

If we're serious about being green why not incentivize people to maintain their perfectly fine older cars and keep them on the road longer, why not try to avoid having to build any more of the bloody things than absolutely necessary? That’s green. A solid first step here would be to scrap the ridiculous registration system that displays the year of the car and creates pressure on the more insecure amongst us to keep changing, regardless of need. That would be green. Crushing older cars, shoving them into landfills then squandering finite resources and filling the skies with toxic shite building replacements, with the blessing of state sponsored incentives and under coercion from the big hitters in the motor industry lobby, definitely isn't.

The current shower will probably change the whole racket because, ironically and confusingly, they're even more misguided than the previous lot. Go figure.