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Now whilst I fully accept that not everyone is able to purchase a new vehicle and some people tow caravans or boats and need a larger engine, watch all the mothers in their 4X4 Range Rovers dropping their kids off, or the company executive in his series 7 BMW! These are ego driven fools who have no consideration for the planet or other people.

I live in LA and EVERYONE has huge SUVs…it is really quite riduculous and they are nothing but staus symbols. When I went to purchase my hybird the dealers were telling me how I was one of the few people who actually could afford the car I chose to buy. He said that most people come in to purchase SUVs and don’t even make enough to make the payments but they just want the car to look “cool”.

While I agree with your general point, who are you to say “I know what is best for you and the planet, so you must do as I say”? If you want to limit people’s freedom in such a way, then you are promoting a socialist / communist state (I know Blair loves to make laws and find new ways to turn people in to criminals – that’s what happens when you appoint a lawyer as PM).

It is sort of like the arms race…many people feel “safer” in the SUV because it is so heavy. I feel very conflicted, because I still drive a car which is much smaller than SUV, but feeling very scared because I drive my children around and everyone else is driving hummers and range rovers. When they crash into me, my children can die but their huge vehicle will not have a scratch. My car is very old, so I will need a new one. Should I join the arms race so my children will be safer in a crash against everybody else’s big car? Or should I buy another smaller vehicle? I am the only mom in the neighborhood who does not drive the SUV. Nothing is really more important to me than the safety of my kids. But yet I don’t want to buy an SUV.

Yep, The Toyota Aygo is indeed a very nice car, if you a are girl. But seriously, todays society is going to get bitten very hard on the *** in the not too distant future. I like to think the UK is trying to do more and change is afoot; althogh A LOT more could be done. Its the USA and China that need to held acountable for their current direction. I find it laughable when i see the “Celebraties” driving around in their eco cars, do they really expect us to believe that they are doing this for the environments sake and not to “promote” themslves. Ha! I ride a Vespa. My girfriend has the Toyota Aygo Black.

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