{"id":6268,"date":"2023-07-30T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2023-07-30T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:48:12","slug":"a-word-to-the-ulez-whiners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6268","title":{"rendered":"A Word To The ULEZ Whiners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or perhaps more than just a word given the level of dumbness displayed by the usual ULEZ opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. It isn’t solely a Labour policy; the ULEZ zone in central London was first introduced by a Tory major (Boris Johnson<\/a>) and extended by the current<\/a> Labour major. The Tory opposition to ULEZ during the Uxbridge by-election was a cheap political stunt to distract from the atrocious record the Tories have in central government. Which seemingly worked on the more gullible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The penalty charge for the ULEZ zone is only paid by the most polluting vehicles – diesel cars older than 8 years old and petrol cars older than 17 years. Which is a tiny minority of the cars on the road.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. This isn’t targeting the poor; the poor in our society can’t afford cars at all. Besides there’s a scrappage scheme which pays people to scrap the smellier cars. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. This isn’t about CO2 emissions; it’s about NOx emissions. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. And frankly none of the objections (even if real) come close to outweighing the advantages of fewer deaths from pollution. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Ceci n’est pas une cabane de plage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Or perhaps more than just a word given the level of dumbness displayed by the usual ULEZ opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[571,2151],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-london","tag-ulez","category-7-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@grumpygrimnir\/110802874726447211","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1D6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}