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Old July 13th 06, 09:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Greg Hennessy Greg Hennessy is offline
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Default Higher congestion charge for thirsty cars

On 13 Jul 2006 08:45:04 -0700, "Kev" wrote:



It seems a bit hypocritical of mayor Ken to do this. If he is so anti
pollution why is he bringing the Olympics to London.


Quite.

Does anybody know
how much extra carbon the construction and the games will pump into the
atmosphere


Far less than the 300 odd coal fired power stations the Chinese are
building. Something which demonstrates the thinly disguised lie behind UK
efforts to allegedly reduce global warming.
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