Steve Gooding, from the RAC Foundation, said: "We should all choose the right vehicle for the right trip to cut the size of our carbon footprint.
"It is right to question if suburban drivers need a car capable of ploughing over rivers, across fields and up steep hills just to pop to the shops."
...so long as you turn out when it brreaks down.
Actually, don't bother. I'm in the AA. Thankfully.
Edmund King, from the AA, told the BBC: "Talk of banning the advertising of SUVs is a naïve approach. Some of the cleanest cars come in the SUV shape but are all electric such as the Jaguar I-Pace, Tesla Model X or Hyundai Kona.
"The auto industry is developing a wide range of cleaner, greener vehicles with some of the best in SUV styles," he said. "Not all SUVs are large. Small SUVs are among the most popular cars on sale, because they usually offer the high-set driving position, practicality, safety and looks of more traditional off-roaders, but without the high price, running costs or emissions."
He added: "Cars like the Nissan Juke are often the family car of choice in suburban areas."
It seems the long march through the institutions hasn't quite made it to the AA yet.
Not one of the doom laden predictions based on the premise that CO2 causes climate change has come to pass. It has been over 30 years now, global warming theory has been falsified. My daughter is moving house at the moment, I just used my Korando to shift a three seat sofa. The RAC can phook off. Whose side do they think that they are on?
ReplyDelete"We should all choose the right vehicle for the right trip"
ReplyDeleteI only have one vehicle. So now I'm going to have to buy a second 4x4 for off-roading, a family car for passengers, a mini for local shop, a hatchback for Tesco, a sports car for pulling birds (*cough*) and a Learjet for campaigning about climate change
Oh, and cancel my RAC subscription
Perhaps the question should be raised with regards to the size of Steve's carbon arseprint.
ReplyDelete"Not one of the doom laden predictions based on the premise that CO2 causes climate change has come to pass."
ReplyDeleteI'm so very glad I didn't take 'Gardener's World' advice to plant a mediterranean garden! I wish I'd planted rice instead, though...
"I only have one vehicle. So now I'm going to have to buy a second 4x4 for off-roading, a family car for passengers, a mini for local shop, a hatchback for Tesco..."
😂
"Perhaps the question should be raised with regards to the size of Steve's carbon arseprint."
Not to mention his salary!