Hitting targets will cost us more cash
RE: City Clean Air Zone. Don’t condemn nitrogen dioxide as a dangerous pollutant. It has benign properties, dissolving in rain water to form nitrous and nitric acids which provide essential nitrogen to plants and it occurs naturally in the air being produced by lightning discharges. Low levels of it in the atmosphere are probably quite harmless to humans.
It has a smell like chlorine in high concentrations. Can you smell any in the city? No, yet we are expected to bear the burden of keeping it below some arbitrary target which we might exceed next year.
How was this target worked out? Do they really know it’s harmful? Whatever solution is chosen it will cost us a lot more, either people will have to go out and buy expensive new cars that meet the new emission requirements, or pay a high charge to use their current one, or, if ‘free’ public transport is the alternative, expensive ‘clean’ renewables will be used instead of conventional fuels.
Let it not be forgotten that Britain has the most expensive electricity charges in Europe due to the use of these ‘renewables’ which are therefore a major cause of the fuel poverty we hear so much about.
Let us remember the lesson of the Germans, who were promised energy from renewables at the extra cost of ‘no more than a scoop of ice-cream per week’. They have ended up paying more than a trillion Euros extra. It’s time this nonsense was abandoned, otherwise more and more of the less well off are going to be left out.
Martin Pinder
Coventry.
Another helpful local who came to rescue
READING a letter from Brian Cook on Thursday 17th October, reminded us of a similar helpful local.
We took the wrong junction off the motorway on our way home from Lytham St. Annes, and ended up totally lost in Wigan.
We pulled into a car park of a wholesale chemist, and my husband went over to ask a man to show us the way on our map.
Instead, he said follow me and I will lead you to the motorway, which he very kindly did, and we went on our way. I agree with Mr Cook, there are still helpful people around.
Mrs Ann Hayles Coventry.