210 vs Politicians gas guzzlers !

What a bunch of b)*&^ hypocrytes. They have a choice big car / little car
guess what they choose ( remember we tax insure and run it for them ) I'm in
the wrong job, I think I'd like to vote my own salary, get a free car, a
nice expense account and bonk the hired help as well !!

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" ..... it is the provenence of knowledge to speak, and it is the privelage
of wisdom to listen"

"Hirsty's" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What a bunch of b)*&^ hypocrytes. They have a choice big car / little car
> guess what they choose ( remember we tax insure and run it for them ) I'm
> in
> the wrong job, I think I'd like to vote my own salary, get a free car, a
> nice expense account and bonk the hired help as well !!
>
> --
>
>
> " ..... it is the provenence of knowledge to speak, and it is the
> privelage
> of wisdom to listen"
>
I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post office
on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while the
postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge queue
behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
A <100gm £-sodall
B 101-120gm £40
C 121-150gm £100
D 151-165gm £125
E 166-185gm £150
F 186-225gm £190
G 225-- skys the limit £210

you have to imagine the bands are tightly spaced for one reason to
stealthily increase tax on midrange cars why else would the difference
between two cars one which produces double the amount of CO2 be £20
environmental concerns my arse.
Derek

> I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post
> office on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while
> the postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge
> queue behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
> A <100gm £-sodall
> B 101-120gm £40
> C 121-150gm £100
> D 151-165gm £125
> E 166-185gm £150
> F 186-225gm £190
> G 225-- skys the limit £210

I thought it was on new cars only - there again I'd had a couple by the time
the news was on last night . . . .

On or around Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:08:14 GMT, "Derek"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>"Hirsty's" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> What a bunch of b)*&^ hypocrytes. They have a choice big car / little car
>> guess what they choose ( remember we tax insure and run it for them ) I'm
>> in
>> the wrong job, I think I'd like to vote my own salary, get a free car, a
>> nice expense account and bonk the hired help as well !!
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> " ..... it is the provenence of knowledge to speak, and it is the
>> privelage
>> of wisdom to listen"
>>
>I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post office
>on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while the
>postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge queue
>behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
>A <100gm £-sodall
>B 101-120gm £40
>C 121-150gm £100
>D 151-165gm £125
>E 166-185gm £150
>F 186-225gm £190
>G 225-- skys the limit £210
>
>you have to imagine the bands are tightly spaced for one reason to
>stealthily increase tax on midrange cars why else would the difference
>between two cars one which produces double the amount of CO2 be £20
>environmental concerns my arse.
>Derek
>

There's a bit in the Times today bemoaning the fact that the new super-band
catches mondeos, while it fails to adequately penalise Prince Charles's
armour-plated bentley which makes 495g of CO2. This, of course, is crap.

In the first place, ordinary 1.8 mondeos, I bet, don't do more than 226g of
CO2, and if they do, they're soddign inefficient. Making the
top-of-the-range go-faster mondeo pay more is to an extent justified. The
other and much more pertinent point is that there's only one of HRH's
bentley, whereas there are about a million mondeos - and even if HRH's
Bentley is in use 24/7/365, it's not going to pollute as much as a million
mondeos.


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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"
John Donne (1571? - 1631) Devotions, XVII

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:52:55 -0000, Buzby wrote:

>> I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post
>> office on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic
>> while the postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be ...
>
> I thought it was on new cars only ...

The new Band G is for new cars (well ones registered from today) all car
registered previous to today remian in the band that were in. The rate
for each band has gone up but that is fairly simple to convert, even for
a post master.

Amazing how people believe the spin put on a story by the media without
checking what the facts are. Oh well, the Journos motto "Never let the
truth get in the way fo a good story".

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:08:14 GMT, "Derek"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>
>>"Hirsty's" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> What a bunch of b)*&^ hypocrytes. They have a choice big car / little
>>> car
>>> guess what they choose ( remember we tax insure and run it for them )
>>> I'm
>>> in
>>> the wrong job, I think I'd like to vote my own salary, get a free car, a
>>> nice expense account and bonk the hired help as well !!
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> " ..... it is the provenence of knowledge to speak, and it is the
>>> privelage
>>> of wisdom to listen"
>>>
>>I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post
>>office
>>on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while the
>>postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge queue
>>behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
>>A <100gm £-sodall
>>B 101-120gm £40
>>C 121-150gm £100
>>D 151-165gm £125
>>E 166-185gm £150
>>F 186-225gm £190
>>G 225-- skys the limit £210
>>
>>you have to imagine the bands are tightly spaced for one reason to
>>stealthily increase tax on midrange cars why else would the difference
>>between two cars one which produces double the amount of CO2 be £20
>>environmental concerns my arse.
>>Derek
>>
>
> There's a bit in the Times today bemoaning the fact that the new
> super-band
> catches mondeos, while it fails to adequately penalise Prince Charles's
> armour-plated bentley which makes 495g of CO2. This, of course, is crap.
>
> In the first place, ordinary 1.8 mondeos, I bet, don't do more than 226g
> of
> CO2, and if they do, they're soddign inefficient. Making the
> top-of-the-range go-faster mondeo pay more is to an extent justified. The
> other and much more pertinent point is that there's only one of HRH's
> bentley, whereas there are about a million mondeos - and even if HRH's
> Bentley is in use 24/7/365, it's not going to pollute as much as a million
> mondeos.
>
>
> --
As Dave points out the spin put on by the papers is jolly nice but the CO2
figures available at Parkers provided you dig a bit are more fun ( I checked
those before I posted)
a Focus 2.5 ST is a right side of the border 224 gm
A BMW 740i auto hits 267 gm
whereas 730 Ld cool at 216gm
the last of the mundanos 1.8sci Ghia est 179gm
oddly the weasel power 2.0 TDCi Ghia X 198gm
now as I suggested the band difference between a 4.2 Supercharged Rangie
at 374gm seems mingy against car falling into the just below the line Focus
or the 423 gms of a Bentley Mulsanne of course if you can afford to buy
either of the top end motors £20 is going to bother you about as much as the
flies which stick to the bonnet at motorway speeds.
Hats off to the band A owners who will benefit UK sales were supposed to be
in single figures bet nobody gets killed in the rush then. I still stand by
my suggestion re the Post Office btw you cannot win I objected to my old
Rangie being described as a BL Rover much good it did me when I taxed it.
Derek

"Derek" wrote >>
> I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post
> office on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while
> the postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge
> queue behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
> A <100gm £-sodall
> B 101-120gm £40
> C 121-150gm £100
> D 151-165gm £125
> E 166-185gm £150
> F 186-225gm £190
> G 225-- skys the limit £210
>
> you have to imagine the bands are tightly spaced for one reason to
> stealthily increase tax on midrange cars why else would the difference
> between two cars one which produces double the amount of CO2 be £20
> environmental concerns my arse.

Some interesting vehicles are over the 225CO2g/km and most of them are cars,
mostly fast big engined cars tis true, but certainly not all "gas guzzling
4x4's" as the media would have us believe. With most 4x4's being diesel
powered quite a few of the smaller type come under the "G" limit, like all
Suzukis and RAV4s.

The Ford Mondeos that are over the 225 limit are the V6s, 2.5 (244) and 3.0
(249). Interestingly the 5 cylinder Focus 2.5T ST comes out at 224 (Volvo
engine).

All Landrover products are over the limit except TD4 Freelanders.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

In message <[email protected]>, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> writes
>On or around Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:08:14 GMT, "Derek"
><[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>
>>"Hirsty's" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> What a bunch of b)*&^ hypocrytes. They have a choice big car / little car
>>> guess what they choose ( remember we tax insure and run it for them ) I'm
>>> in
>>> the wrong job, I think I'd like to vote my own salary, get a free car, a
>>> nice expense account and bonk the hired help as well !!
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> " ..... it is the provenence of knowledge to speak, and it is the
>>> privelage
>>> of wisdom to listen"
>>>
>>I can hardly wait -its got to be entertaining to go into a main post office
>>on saturday and wait for a 7 series BMW owner to go ballistic while the
>>postmaster tries to work out what the hell it should be with a huge queue
>>behind suffering another piece of ill thought out legislation.
>>A <100gm £-sodall
>>B 101-120gm £40
>>C 121-150gm £100
>>D 151-165gm £125
>>E 166-185gm £150
>>F 186-225gm £190
>>G 225-- skys the limit £210
>>
>>you have to imagine the bands are tightly spaced for one reason to
>>stealthily increase tax on midrange cars why else would the difference
>>between two cars one which produces double the amount of CO2 be £20
>>environmental concerns my arse.
>>Derek
>>
>
>There's a bit in the Times today bemoaning the fact that the new super-band
>catches mondeos, while it fails to adequately penalise Prince Charles's
>armour-plated bentley which makes 495g of CO2. This, of course, is crap.
>
>In the first place, ordinary 1.8 mondeos, I bet, don't do more than 226g of
>CO2, and if they do, they're soddign inefficient. Making the
>top-of-the-range go-faster mondeo pay more is to an extent justified. The
>other and much more pertinent point is that there's only one of HRH's
>bentley, whereas there are about a million mondeos - and even if HRH's
>Bentley is in use 24/7/365, it's not going to pollute as much as a million
>mondeos.
>
>
Does his Bentley run on LPG? - I know they were doing one for his mum.
--
hugh
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