tag:hindsight.blog.co.uk,2009-11-05:/MokoFeed2009-11-05T04:43:14+01:00tag:hindsight.blog.co.uk,2005-10-13:/2005/10/13/road_chaos~232419/hindsight2005-10-13T16:25:21+02:002005-10-13T16:25:21+02:00 <p>I am insenesed.<br> I have just been stood up at an appointment but that is not my porblem.<br> What really made me mad was the reason. The man i was supposed to meet had taken his dog to the vet 70miles away in his 4x4. (There are vets within 2miles of his home)<br> When i spoke to him later in the day he was back home but told me he was going back to the same vet later that day!<br> So that is 280 miles in one day for a dog. That is around 70 litres of fuel and producing around 250kg of Carbon Dioxide (1/4 ton)<br> Togther with the cost of the vet he would have spent well over £200.<br> This horrifies me for several reasons;<br> 1. No wonder the roads are so congested, surley it's time the road tax and insurance were added to the cost of fuel to try and limit such waste.<br> 2. How can this man spend so much on a dying dog while living in the full knowlege that so many people are starving to death in the world.<br> 3. This example is just one of the millions of people cuasing global warming. We are all doomed. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://hindsight.blog.co.uk/2005/10/13/road_chaos~232419/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>