Ex Shell Chairman says ban gas guzzlers
My quote of the week, both because of who said it and how he said it. Mark Moody-Stuart, the ex-chairmen of Shell illustrated his point that the EU should ban gas guzzling luxury cars:
"It is a social thing. We don't say the wealthy can avoid doing what is needed by society."
"When we eliminated coal fires in London we didn't say to people in Chelsea you can pay a bit more and toast your crumpets in front of an open fire - we said nobody, but nobody, could have an open fire."
Here's the full story from the BBC and a little wider context from our UK site.
Queue multiple car industry responses (excuses) basically along the lines of "no, we need flexible (lax) regulation (if we must) and gas guzzlers owners (=big profits for us) are allowed to pollute because they pay a fraction of extra tax and a few cents extra when they fill up (see no problem, no need for pesky regulation)".
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