No Letting the Engine Run While You Scrape Ice Off Your Windshield
To the extremely long list of pointless laws that combine to form the soft totalitarianism prevailing in Airstrip One, we can add a proscription against letting the engine run while you scrape ice off your windshield. You see, supposedly wasting a few drops of gasoline would be hurtful to polar bears. No, I’m not kidding:
Motorists who leave their cars running on frosty mornings to warm up the engine and clear the windscreen could face being fined under anti-pollution rules this winter.
Drivers are being told that leaving a car idling for more than a couple of minutes wastes fuel, and they could be served with on-the-spot fines of up to £40.
This is how liberty dies: not by a single blow that people would know enough to resist, but by thousands of bureaucratic paper cuts that gradually bleed us dry. Environmental hysteria offers the pretext for an infinite number of trivial regulations, the only real purpose of which is to make us do whatever petty tyrants tell us.
On a tip from Bill V. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on November 30, 2009 11:30 am
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