If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...

[Streetwalker]

I watched a little bit of her speech earlier and she looked positively deranged. She might fire up the youngsters but her constant haranguing is not going to do it for the rest.
I have one car per household! Do I get brownie points?   

Indeed I saw some pictures and she looks ready for the psychiatrist's couch .
I have never owned a car  so I guess I get double what ever your getting Toots      

If Kids are going to be  leading from the front or just behind saint Greta on this they can start by walking to school but really the programme should be the same as the one we were told at school in the 60/70's 

Stop cutting down the rainforests , plant a tree and switch the light off when you leave the room . 
50 years later we are still doing the first and not doing the rest so Im not holding out much hope anything suggested now will be taken on board .

Maybe Greta is right , bla bla bla .

[Nick]

Climate villains no doubt.

No, they call them Climate Criminals !!

[T00ts]

Her latest is that everything is just "blah,blah,blah", then she realised she was speaking to a mirror.

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...
They would allow only one private car per household.

I watched a little bit of her speech earlier and she looked positively deranged. She might fire up the youngsters but her constant haranguing is not going to do it for the rest.
I have one car per household! Do I get brownie points?   

[Barry]

Greta Thunberg will hopefully say something even more hysterical and graceless than usual,

Her latest is that everything is just "blah,blah,blah", then she realised she was speaking to a mirror.

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...
They would allow only one private car per household.

[Sheepy]

Climate villains no doubt.

[Barry]

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...

Foreign holidays would be banned to reduce carbon emissions.

[Borchester]

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...

Then all public transport would be free (i.e. paid for out of the Treasury)
Whatever your own thoughts about CO2, global warming climate change, the government are committed to reducing emissions.

If people could travel for free they would not use their own cars, unless the route they travel is impossible using PT.
Can anyone explain why this is not government policy, along with an improvement in door to door accessibility?

It is probably because Carrie Johnson is at the coal eating stage and Boris figures that there is only so much earache a man can bear.

The GOP26 is due later in the year and Greta Thunberg will hopefully say something even more hysterical and graceless than usual, which will thoroughly piss off the public and allow the Tories to pass a law making coal fires compulsory.

[HDQQ]

If trains and buses were free (in non pandemic times), there'd be too many joyriders depriving seats from people with genuine transport need.

There are electric buses in service in some cities and a lot of London buses are now hybrid, with electric drive, with their diesel powered generator only starting up to recharge the battery when necessary. The life of a bus is usually 20+ years, so it's not economic to make a complete change to electric in one go. Not here, anyway - although one Chinese city, Shenzen, has done just that. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/a-chinese-megacity-bus-fleet-goes-fully-electric.

A diesel bus has quite good mpg-per-passenger if it's full or even half full. Say a typical bus does 10 mpg and a car does 50 mpg, then that bus only needs an average passenger loading of 5 to equal the efficiency per person as a car with one occupant.

[T00ts]

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...

Then all public transport would be free (i.e. paid for out of the Treasury)
Whatever your own thoughts about CO2, global warming climate change, the government are committed to reducing emissions.

If people could travel for free they would not use their own cars, unless the route they travel is impossible using PT.
Can anyone explain why this is not government policy, along with an improvement in door to door accessibility?

There is so much wrong with the rush for Carbon freedom. Buses kick out so much muck out of their exhausts, and are all diesel with low MPG as far as I know,  yet there is no mention of them being electric. It's all very well setting these massive targets but without the right steps along the way it will just create social anger and people will only take so much.

[Barry]

If the govt were really serious about carbon emissions...

Then all public transport would be free (i.e. paid for out of the Treasury)
Whatever your own thoughts about CO2, global warming climate change, the government are committed to reducing emissions.

If people could travel for free they would not use their own cars, unless the route they travel is impossible using PT.
Can anyone explain why this is not government policy, along with an improvement in door to door accessibility?