Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Job-Rated]

This was posted on another forum I frequent & I felt compelled to post it here, for obvious reasons.

"Fear over proposals to restrict the use of classic cars

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reject any proposals to ban or restrict the use of older cars.

An e-petition submitted by Richard Jewell of NA. Note the deadline to sign up is 18th March 2008. Signatures supporting the e-petition at 1st February 2008 were 19,555.
Support the petition at:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Classic-Cars

Several EU proposals across the years are dangerous to the classic car movement. One that has been under consideration is to ban the use of cars older than 10 years. Similarly, Edinburgh City Council is considering the banning of cars over 15 years old from the town centre. These and similar proposals directly threaten the classic car movement and encourage the manufacture of new cars, with the attendant environmental issues of sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, distributing and scrapping the spiralling supply of new vehicles".
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[Uncle Joe]

Presumably the proposal is aimed at reducing pollution. But I wonder when we are going to see politicians in enviromentally friendly cars.

Fact: A short while ago, a survey found a Jeep to be the most enviromentally concious car, taken from start of manufacture, to the end of its life. One of the reasons was the fact that no uneeded accesories were on it. No electric windows and so on.....doesnt that sound like most classics?