Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: BrianWBrianW Date: Jul 4, 2008 07:23
On 4 Jul, 15:13, Ed Banger bangladesh.com> wrote:>>On 3 Jul, 12:54, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> From 1909:-
>
>>> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
>>> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
>>> one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
>>> snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
>>> Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
>>> pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
>>> Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
>
>>> So, no change then?
>
>>Obviously not. He didn't and nobody else has since. Though maybe, just
>>maybe, the rising price of oil might finally do the trick and make
>>motorists pay as much as they cost the country at long last.
>
> Ah, more DuhgStats.
>
> They already pay many times more than they 'cost' the country. How a
> lifelong dole bunny like you can even keep a straight face while
> spouting this drivel is beyond me.
>
> And you admit to having been a motorist yourself. Has the CO2 that you
> output during that time magically become "good" CO2 that somehow doesn't
> contribute to the greenhouse effect any more?
It did not magically become "good" CO2. It always was "good" CO2. As
I thought everybody knew, CO2 produced by activities undertaken by
Gollum, or of which Gollum approves is automatically "good". All
other CO2 is of the "bad" variety. Do try and keep up at the back,
please.
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