Do The Right Thing

There are some strange bikes out there . . .

I’m sure you can come up with a suitably ironic caption for this photo. And if you do, you could win our fabulous prize for this week:
A fuel duty-free flight to a warmer world.
This is a great prize brought to you by the Tax-Dodging Alliance [...]

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Over on IPayRoadTax.com , one of the comments raises an interesting philosophical point to justify why drivers of cars have a greater moral right to use the roads than people riding bikes:
"How much extra tax do you think you would have to pay if cars didn’t exist?"
This got me thinking, so I did some digging.
Per [...]

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… or in other words, a snowball’s chance in hell. If we’d held out for a politically acceptable, affordable solution to problems in the past, we’d have probably decided that appeasement of the Third Reich was the way to win votes at home.
Actually, it probably was the way to win votes at home, but we’d [...]

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The ideological, swivel-eyed, lunatic fringe are just as convinced that "It is a global Marxist mantra that is going to be used to beat people around the head, tax us to the hilt, smash nations and impose a one-world government."

A very vocal minority will try to convince you over the next two weeks that it’s [...]

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If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night.
The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home from [...]

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Yes indeed, green IS the new black.
Whether you’re painting your nails with Chanel (or fake Chanel - the real stuff is rumoured to be going for around £80 a bottle), trying to put some clear green water between your political party and the next, or just trying to ease your conscience after a career of [...]

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… weekend, gay rights, the right to form a union, the abolition of slavery, everything was won by disobedience"
Sometimes I’m very, very boring and conventional. And I’m not entirely sure of the merits of a mass civil disobedience event at the COP15 UN Summit (will the protest achieve it’s aims, or result in a beautiful [...]

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Remember this classic photograph from Amsterdamize ?

It’s an example of the art of city cycling at its best. The thing is, with climate change and stuff like that, there’s the potential for this sort of scene to be dramatically altered in the not-too-distant future:

So for this week’s caption contest, all you have to [...]

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I’ve got lapse. Very very lapse.
These posts by Andy In Germany and Imagine No Cars reminded me that principals are actually important. More important than convenience.
[Whining voice] Somehow that ride to work (15-18 miles) is just too far. Then there are all those local trips - just a few miles, but always in a hurry.
That [...]

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If you don’t speak German, this’ll seem like hard work for a Friday afternoon - you’re going to have to read the subtitles. But there’s a point to all this, so stick with it to the end.

(via the excellent People Powered blog of Andy in Germany )

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