Thread: Eat your cake
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Old 05-10-2008, 08:42 PM
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Re: Eat your cake

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A simple and quick solution for the UK, would be to follow France’s lead and invest in nuclear energy.
hasn't this just happened? Hasn't HMG handed over the UK nuclear industry to a Monsieur Burns in EDF?

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Then the government should think about ways to discourage travel;
surely our fellow-motorists and commuters do that for us already? I don't see how HMG could make it worse...


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The ‘green’ movement is nothing new, having been around at least 40 years, and it’s continued existence proves beyond doubt that mankind will always resist change if it means we have to give up something. You want your cake; and you want to eat it, ice it, dip it in honey and suck the life out of it.
You've missed the bit about getting your money back afterwards...!
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