23 April 2009
Quote of the Week
From Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear:
"The funniest thing about the government, to me, is that they recently decided to judge how much company car tax you pay on how much carbon dioxide comes out of the back. What a stupid thing! It's not a killer gas. Look, we've got this chart here. And this shows where carbon dioxide comes from. 95.5% comes from nature! Do they go around taxing farmers for their flocks of cows? Do they tax Mt. Etna every time it blows? That is ridiculous! Only this little orange sliver here comes from man. And of that, 34% from power stations -- people charging up their electric cars! And then you've got 14% from "domestic" use. Potterton's boilers: tax them! Put them out of business! Because look what they're doing. Only 13% of that little tiny bit there comes from cars. Ridiculous. But, we have the rules, and it's our job on Top Gear to show you a way around them."
"The funniest thing about the government, to me, is that they recently decided to judge how much company car tax you pay on how much carbon dioxide comes out of the back. What a stupid thing! It's not a killer gas. Look, we've got this chart here. And this shows where carbon dioxide comes from. 95.5% comes from nature! Do they go around taxing farmers for their flocks of cows? Do they tax Mt. Etna every time it blows? That is ridiculous! Only this little orange sliver here comes from man. And of that, 34% from power stations -- people charging up their electric cars! And then you've got 14% from "domestic" use. Potterton's boilers: tax them! Put them out of business! Because look what they're doing. Only 13% of that little tiny bit there comes from cars. Ridiculous. But, we have the rules, and it's our job on Top Gear to show you a way around them."
Labels: Top Gear
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