'Idlers' call for action !

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  • flatcoat
    flatcoat Forum Participant Posts: 1,571
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    edited September 2017 #32

    I admit i am also concerned about the health and pollution risks from fox pee, rabbit poo, bird droppings. In the interests of protecting their members, Isn't it about time the C & MC culled all wildlife from sites and introduced a nappy policy for all visiting dogs? And perhaps to show their full support for all environmental issues consider harnessing the exhaust gases from those caravanners using gas heating systems? Or should the club ban all use of gas? And to avoid problems with engine idling invest in hybrid or electric tractors which are used to pick up all caravans on arrival and park them for members who would have to leave their cars at the entrance, unless they are hybrid or EV's. It would also mean banning wood burning stoves (which as all the anti diesel lobbyists know but don't say it because they probably all have wood burning stoves,  pollute more than diesel......).

    If idling engines and dog pee is all members have to worry about can we swap places? Hey ho, funny old world. 

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited September 2017 #33

    How anyone can jump up and down about environmental issues when they drive a Land Rover with a big diesel engine is beyond me. 

    Either you care or you don’t. 

    It’s hypocrisy on a grand scale. Anyone who chooses to drive such vehicles (and I include myself in this, big caravan, big thirsty car to pull it) has absolutely no right to comment in discussions, siding with those against unnessary pollution of any kind.

     

     

     

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218
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    edited September 2017 #34

    The nub of this discourse is the 'unnecessary' pollution of engines left running, not the amount of pollution that they produce when actually performing the function for which they were designed - moving vehicles.

    None of us are really committed to being pollution-free otherwise we'd be living in a cave.

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited September 2017 #35

    Absolutely, but for someone who drives a two and three quarter tonne truck which emits multiple amounts of pollution compared to other vehicles that will also get you from position A to position B and then complain about the harmful effects of dog urine... in a forum discussion relating to exhaust fumes?

     

  • Metheven
    Metheven Club Member Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭
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    edited September 2017 #36

    Agree, it was certainly an oddball reply undecided

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