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It's so ''Animal Farm'' of the Government. One rule for one and a different rule for another. If the Government aren't doing anything, why on earth should us citizens save their greenhouse gas emissions and be forced into buying eco bulbs and eco cars?To be honest, I don't buy into all this "we're heating up the planet" crap. The earth goes in cycles, you only need to go to the right museum and ask one of the clever looking people that wander around and they'd be able to tell you this can be seen from looking at rocks. We've had at least two ice ages, and I think the same number of "hot periods"... and we're talking about many many centuries before humans were around, so unless T-rex's farted a lot then the planet heating up wouldn't be directly caused by the animals on the planet.
Anyway, the whole "one rule for us another for them" is another reason I won't go out of my way to reduce emissions. If I need bright energy-consuming lights for working, then I'll damn well use them... I don't see MP's not using planes to go from one city to the city a few miles down the road. And then there's China and the US.
I'm sure the massive increase in electrical consumption will be blamed on us despite the ban on Incandescent 100+ watt lamps. It'll be a big disaster during the next decade as most of out fossil fueled power stations are due to be decommissioned. I suspect most are constantly running at full capacity now as well.
How many times do you drive past one and see steam coming from all the towers? Drax and Eggborough are like this everytime i've gone past them. It's not right and needs to stop before it puts us in darkness.Well Drax is the biggest coal-fired power station in western europe, and provides electric for something like 10% of the UK. Eggbrough never used to run constantly, but it has been doing so for a good few years now. Ferrybridge is one of the "reserve" stations, and is only used in the peaks... with Ferrybridge you know when it's running full pelt because of black smoke coming from the stacks; if there's only steam coming from the towers then it's not burning fuel and is cooling down. But if you get on an East Coast train from York and head south (at least to p'bro) then you see lots of power stations, Drax, around by Eggbrough with Ferrybridge in the distance, (Thorpe marsh at Barnby Dun can be seen, but that's semi-demolished), and there's two or three that can be seen between Retford and Newark - the closest being at Cottam south of gainsbro', but I'm sure one is on the other side of Lincoln, and on really clear days at grantham you can sometimes see steam clouds from Ratcliffe-on-soar.
Some bits of the M62 are getting "poor mans widening" treatment... whereby the hard shoulders are used as normal running lanes at busy times, and layby's added every few hundred meters. Amongst my gripes against this include that brighter lighting is installed, and that if you break down in a section between the layby's then you're ******I heard that and I have serious concerns. Especially when it comes to the slip roads.
I hope the hard shoulder markings are changed at slip roads. All it'll take is someone who doesn't know the HS can be used and they go turning off the motorway in the normal manner and cause a crash.
I really don't think the Active Traffic Management schemes have been thought through... it's just a case of "ooh we can get more capacity without spending money on widening" without thinking of how it'll affect the people actually driving on it... and that includes the reduced speed limit (likely to be 40mph) during ATM times when the HS is open for normal running. And also, what happens if there's an accident and ambulances need to get to the crash? they won't be able to use the hard shoulder because there'll be cars and trucks on it.