[Mgs] UK Government not planning to ban old cars

[Richard Gosling]

Someone somewhere obviously got concerned that UK or European legislation
was on the verge of banning classic cars, and started a petition on the
Prime Minister's website to stop this happening.  Here's the government
response:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page15326.asp

Basically they say that last year they investigated the idea of creating
incentives for scrapping cars that don't comply with more recent emissions
legislation, and decided it wasn't a good idea, for various reasons
including the environmental cost of scrapping loads of cars and building
loads more to replace them with.  So there are no plans to ban anything.

They don't deny that Edinburgh City Council may be going to ban old cars
from the city centre, but say that is entirely Edinburgh Council's business
and nothing to do with the government.

We can all rest easy tonight thanks to our governments re-assuring words
(unless we plan to drive into Edinburgh).  In fact I'm tempted to drive to
Edinburgh in Sammy this weekend, just to show my disapproval!

Richard & Sammy ('73 Black Tulip BGT, RIP Daffy the '78 Inca Yellow
Spitfire)