Our car is
elderly now so when the MOT and insurances come round and we have the
information its emissions have been on the high side compared to others, to our
cost. But it has a small engine and has
not been driven hard or far.
So when I have
looked at the figures for much bigger and powerful cars I have supposed that
the reason for our higher figures is that the technology and design of cars has
advanced so much that ours rather than being among the lowest is at the higher
end.
What I did not
realise was that the technological advance has been to the effect of disguising
the true emission level. So they, cars
for the wealthier, have been paying less than my little runabout that does have
good petrol use figures.
My reaction is
that the so and so's should be hammered.
But they are not British cars they are German. Which raises issues at the highest level. This, sadly, means government, the EU and
other things.
It is Lombard
Street to a China Orange, to quote Chancellor George Osborne's favourite
saying, that the Bullingdon Club of old, and maybe, more recently, during their
jollies sang rude songs. As well as
doing the tiresome NSDAP impressions that became common in younger generations
of students, but not mine for obvious reasons.
One of these
is singing the impolite version of the German Anthem, "Deutscheland Uber
Alles". It is very simple to learn
and sing, even for the Bullingdon. When
Ms. Merkel next visits Downing Street perhaps a crew of old Bullingdonians can
be lined up to sing it, their sort of emissions.
There are only
three words, repeated and repeated.
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