Congestion charge: Friends of the Earth v Porsche

Directors of Friends of the Earth and Porsche go head to head on congestion charging in London. Footage courtesy of Sky News.

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News & Politics

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• friendsoftheearth
• porsche
• congestion
• charge
• car
• transport
• london

[calvinjones]

I think that the work that porche do in lobbying the EU against efficiency standards that made them look really bad.

[stopurban4x4s]

This is a total KO! for FoE and Londoners.

Why should a company that makes gas guzzling sports cars for middle aged ray-ban wearing toffs decide what is best for London?

[Simon88ification]

This infuriates me! These Tree Hugger's should mind their own business, end of the day you have 1 life and what these Idiot's are doing is literally trying to take over your life and dictate to you what you can and can not buy. If you work hard and want to treat yourself to a nice car you should strictly not have to justify yourself as to why you buy it, let anybody from one of these ridiculous organisation's dictate to me, I'll buy a Green car, a Green Range Rover to use only on a Sunday :)

[dunsedog]

@sweetypie000 ok so i live just south of u in battersea and have choice of bus, overground, underground and as u said cycling(lanes), tho not all of them are viable for trip to a certain place 99% of the time one of them is. I said "very few" and u said "every" trip", im not denying u will need a car sometimes but if congestion charge acts as the incentive for ppl like u to use public transport instead of cars for simple trips in order to reduce congestion then its worth having imho.

[sweetypie000]

@dunsedog "London has PLENTY of transport alternatives" such as ? expensive buses, cycling that you risk you life at everyday ? I've a car and I cycle 15 miles every day, I was also born in chelsea

now tell me the alternatives ?

"there are very few justifiable cars trip into london u can make. " ah, so I live here, have a car and every trip I make is unjustifiable eh ? So I should also pay £4 for a single trip on the tube, as well as bank rolling a car ?

you know nothing.

[dunsedog]

@sweetypie000 Its very clearly signed mate, all residential areas included in the zone are very rich so i wouldnt say it was a tax on the poor at all. London has PLENTY of transport alternatives, unless u are running a business there are very few justifiable cars trip into london u can make.

[yozeroz]

FOE 1 Porsche 0

[sweetypie000]

pollution from cars is pale in comparrison to the buses, coaches and lorrys on our roads that rape the air and rip up our roads

but of course those services work for them as they are revenue earners. passing the blame onto car drivers and penalising them

i hate this country

[sweetypie000]

anyone voting FOR congestion charge needs their head examined.

£60 if you don't know if you entered the zone as a penalty. It's nothing but vile theft.

gas guzzler drivers CAN AFFORD TO PAY

some poor cunt who gets a £60 fine because they don't know they went in the zone can't

this is a tax on the poor over and over again

[KrunchyJD]

Good, Ta motorists, there will be less of them, and more people walking and cycling

[1Nyro]

Please tell him to go fuck himself for me.