Red card for gas guzzling cars in pollution clampdown (UK)

[True_Blue]

Cars will carry colour-coded labels warning potential buyers of their impact on climate change under measures to be launched by the government this week.

Four-wheel drives will suffer the ignominy of having to display red stickers, while small, fuel-efficient models will sport labels in shades of green.

Car manufacturers and retailers spent last year obstructing progress on the scheme - to be unveiled by the Transport Secretary Alistair Darling - amid industry concern that it could precipitate stricter restrictions on exhaust emissions and undermine the viability of the profitable 4x4 sector.

Darling believes that the labels, inspired by the A-G stickers that reveal the emission ratings of fridges and washing machines, will encourage people to buy less harmful vehicles. The stickers are based on a car's emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas that scientists have identified as the principal cause of man-made climate change.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1406913,00.html

[Lorien]

1. Excellent!

Of course, here in the US Freepers would probably BUY red stickers to put on their cars as a sign of their proud "patriotism*" (*role as consumer lemmings).

[lapfog_1]

2. Why worry about peak oil or global warming

if you are about to be bodily assumed into the sky and Jeebus returns
to rule.

[True_Blue]

3. and then God is going to make a new earth anyway...

so what's the big deal? :shrug:

[paineinthearse]

4. I appreciate the "red card" usage

feel free to photoshop

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Bush needs to send some of his people over there to straighten out these

Old Europeans.

Don't they know that car exhaust is good for you and the environment?

Hell, I'll bet those stupid Brits doesn't even like a little mercury in their fish and chips.

Stupid foreigners.

[WetBarNone]

6. They should add red tags to every electrical outlet

That is generated from climate change fuel. Next should be lung size and breathing rate since CO2 is the human output of living the healthy life. Deportation of the sacred cow that only converts O2 and food to CO2 and Methane should follow too.

[JimmyJazz]

7. Welcome to DU....

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out....