Hi, > One of my peeves with them forcing Kyoto on us is that the > infrastructure where I live has deteriorated to the point where > driving a small vehicle has become a safety issue, yet we will > be penalized even more for driving vehicles that will stand up > to the roads.
seems to me you should be getting your politicians to fix the potholes! I saw some statistics quoted for the UK recently which showed the total cost to the taxpayer of transporting all our goods by road in heavy lorries rather than by rail, and an enormous part of it was down to repairing the damage these things do to the roads. I saw this for myself recently when a big lorry drove over the pavement (sidewalk) near my house, and all the paving stone jus crumbled beneath its wheels, or were forced up into tent-like structures when the bollards were uprooted. It sounds as though if this had happened in Canada it would have been left that way and everybody would have sold their minis and bought tanks to deal with it... --- Bob
