On or around Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:20:17 +0000 (UTC), "Alan Mudd"
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>Listening to Radio 2 today listening to Jeremy Vine.
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>They'd trailed the fact that Clarkson would be on today, discussing the trip
>up the mountain in the new defender.
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>I thought this should be fun, what I wasn't expecting was the single most
>unreasonable chap Vine has ever managed to find.
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>This guy was plain rude and liked the sound of his own voice even more than
>Jeremy Vine does.
George wossisface did come over as a complete tit, I have to say. Clarkson
made the point that the mountain in question is private land, and as such, I
daresay they did nothing illegal, unless it happens to be an SSSI or
something.
Trouble is, I actually agree in principle with a lot of what the
environmentalists are saying, except that they say it in such an extreme,
biassed and generally stupid way that the majority will dismiss them as
idiots. The bloke in question hasn't done anything IMHO to further his
cause, he just comes over as a rude pillock who's not listen and who results
to personal insults to try and make his point.
And it's all very well to spout about fuel efficiency and fossil fuels and
so forth, but the plain fact is that if you banned the use of fossil fuels
in cars and lorries today, society as we know it would collapse overnight
and doubtless about half the world population or more would soon be dead
from one cause or another. The problem is, as environmentalists point out,
huge, but as such it takes a huge investment of time, effort and money to
solve. You can't do it by spouting on about wind power, fuel-cell cars and
other crap, because none of these alternatives, all of which are valid to a
point, are anything like large enough scale to solve the problem. If you
covered this country with windmills, thereby buggering the fragile
environments on scottish mountains pretty comprehensively, you'd still not
reliable generate enough power to allow removal of the existing fossil and
nuclear power generation systems.
There was a website I found a bit back, which discussed the possibility of
converting the US road transport entirely to Hydrogen. disregarding the
amount of fresh water you'd have to supply to crack into H and O, to produce
enough electricity to electrolyse the water would at the time have required
something 3000 sq. miles of solar panels, wind generators covering 2
medium-sized states, or one largeish nuclear power station.
) was a little lost for
