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Originally Posted by Alvin
Seriously they are great little tools for fair weather city travel,no parking problems,can get anywhere you can walk.
I can get up a 1 in 4 hill using just power,so these machines are no gimick.
Alvin
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In spite of being not far off Alvin's age (I suspect) I use a proper man-powered bike tho I wonder how much CO2 I generate when I'm puffing up hill. It's just that you work up a real sweat so might not be very nice to know when you arrive. I live in a rural area which helps: really dangerous cycling in town these days.
I think the problem we have in this ountry is that G Brown is so desperate to get all the tax revenue he can to fund his irresponsible spending that he rather likes very high fuel prices. Not only does he get the tax on fuel but also the increased VAT (ie a tax on a tax) due to the sky high prices; it comes to billions extra tax for him to fritter away.
I can only think this is the reason why he taxes diesel fuel so highly as this has a huge knock on effect on prices of everything else, and hence we'll shortly have very high inflation if he doesn't reduce this tax.
That's why politicians don't really want to know about helping the motorists - and of couse GB is not one himself, but maybe he won't have his ministerial car for much longer.......
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