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Bottling it up
Conservative
councillors today complained at the amount of CO2 emissions
being generated by the number of bandwagons onto which
Liberal-Democrat councillors were jumping. The latest was a ban
on bottled water which Liberal-Democrats tried to impose on the
County Council during its full council meeting on 1 April.
To calls of
hypocrisy, Liberal-Democrat councillors were observed drinking
the sparkling mineral water offered at council meetings even
whilst the motion was being moved.
Cllr David
Wilmshurst (Thame and Chinnor) said:
“The people
of Oxfordshire must wonder what we are about when we waste time
on such a trivial issue. This was a typical Liberal-Democrat
motion – bad science, uncosted, and, irrelevant. What we should
have been concentrating on were the major inequalities faced by
the people of Oxfordshire. We, after all, are paying £7.10 for
our prescriptions while the residents of shire counties in
Scotland are paying nothing.”
Sir David King,
the former Chief Scientific Advisor to the government, has
warned that singling out luxury items in this way trivialises
climate change and is counter-productive. He also points out how
the calculation of food miles has been reduced to inaccurate and
simplistic calculations.
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