If They Want Us to Save Fuel, Why Are They Closing Post Offices ? ; ... Or Why the 'Environmental' Policies so Popular with Our Nation's Leaders Are Actually Increasing Pollution, As Former Green Party Politician David Aherne Explains

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A fool never learns from his mistakes, a wise person never makes the same mistake twice, and a genius learns from the mistakes of others and so avoids making them in the first place. In Britain, our governments are always firmly in the first category.

Although I was disappointed, I was not surprised to hear that when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown received the recent report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern,which set out the dangers of global warming, they saw it as a golden opportunity to increase the tax burden on the public. This took the form of road tolls, more duty on fuel and increasing the cost of the vehicle tax disc for larger cars. They were even talking about increasing the tax on the gas and electricity we use in our homes.

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If They Want Us to Save Fuel, Why Are They Closing Post Offices ? ; ... Or Why the 'Environmental' Policies so Popular with Our Nation's Leaders Are Actually Increasing Pollution, As Former Green Party Politician David Aherne Explains

But while the Government says it wants us to use our cars less, other policies it has introduced are increasing the amount of pollution created by motorists.

The closure of 2,500 sub-post offices, for example, is forcing people to drive miles to get a...

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