Our friend Spike is still going on with his anti-4wd campaign. What a joke! After all the e-mails he received from people of this
forum, he still can't print anything pro-4wd and can only put recycled b$llsh$t he already talked about previously. This just prove how shallow he is. Easy to put his ideas forward but can't handle somebody's else opinion. See below his latest article:
Tanks for everything
Since starting our campaign against oversized 4WDs and 2WDs last week, we've received so many emails we're almost bogged.
More than 80 per cent of emailers supported our effort to reduce the number of destructive, dangerous behemoths polluting our city's streets. To this end, readers made various sensible suggestions: legislating that drivers of such vehicles obtain special drivers' licences and training - for their own, and everyone else's, safety; raising federal tariffs so that imported 4WDs are taxed at the same level as imported 2WDs - currently 4WDs are taxed at 5 per cent, while 2WDs cop a 10 per cent slug; electronically speed limiting them to, say, 100kmh; outlawing dangerous backyard modifications; and doubling these cars' registration costs. "Tax 'em high," exhorted Frank Hicks, who also wants a ban on bullbars.
Mary Anne Hingerty wrote: "I have started referring to these things as 'SUVs', but this seems a misnomer as the words are: Sports ... the only 'sports' connection is driving one or two kids to soccer; Utility ... any tiny amount is surely vastly outweighed by damage to safety, amenity, environment, fossil fuels, etc; Vehicles ... perhaps 'trucks'?"
Jennifer Dewar's perspective: "Having lived for 24 years on a 24,000-acre property north-west of
Moree without a 4WD and in
Sydney the last three years surrounded by a plethora of them, bring on the ban! I'm now surrounded by the behemoths which the owners can't drive nor park."
Peter Lawson, an irate Leichhardt reader, has taken to printing out anti-4WD leaflets and leaving them under windscreen wipers. These leaflets warn that: "Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it."
Tomorrow, we print several more light-hearted responses.
SLY.