speed limiters on vehicles

[boxerboy]

i read on the internet that by putting speed limiters on vehicles which may or may not happen will reduce the CO2 emissions.Having travelled to far away countries this year i have seen pollution everywhere ,no blue skies and i ask myself what do these countries contribute to the reduction of emissions in the world .It just seems to be the british public getting penalised for everything or the government taxing anything they can, a way of getting rvenue.This country is'nt so GREAT after all

[Supernick]

I'm sure that your 'If no-one else helps then why should I?' attitude is exactly what will help sort the problem out. Stick it in a letter to Gordon Brown, but make sure you get full credit for it.

[Whickerman]

you're 100% right of course.

Except where you're 100% wrong.

179 other countries are signatories of the Kyoto agreement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kyoto_Pro tocol_signatories

The limiters you're referring to have been mooted as a voluntary move btw.

[DrFilth]

the worlds biggest two polluters america and china have NOT signed the Kyoto agreement.

hence why my job went to china



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[DrFilth]

i stand corrected china have signed , strange that they don't have to worry about the waste like we do in this country. something dodgy going on here



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[DrFilth]

The two countries that would have been required to do something about emissions were the two that initially refused to sign - Australia and the US - on the ostensibly reasonable grounds that because it excluded developing countries, notably India and China, the protocol would have no effect apart from making the countries that signed it feel good. As has been pointed out time and again, before the financial crisis China was building coal-fired electricity plants equivalent to far more than the total Australian generating capacity, each year.

Perhaps we should get China onside? China�s chief contribution to the Kyoto debate so far, has been to demand money in return for cutting their emissions

[DrFilth]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/14 /1877




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[rov1200]

Speed limiters are already fitted to coaches and HGVs in the UK. The reason is not primarily for CO2 emissions but for safety and an adherence to speed limits in towns and on motorways. Fitting them to cars is just an extension to the current set-up. Fitting them as an option won't work nor will the over-ride function. It should be compulsory for everbody or not at all.

[tigerlily11]

I never saw the point of a car that can do well over 100 mph in a country that has a national speed limit of 70mph.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, i never saw the point in selling bottles of whisky in 1ltr's when you shouldnt be drinking no where near that much...