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Ken Livingstone, your website: http://www.kenlivingstone.com/ is encouraging readers to try and stop Porsche's legal challenge to your proposed CO2 charge. On what grounds do you believe that Porsche shouldn't be allowed the right to challenge you in court?
Asked by bonzo1 on Feb 28 2008 10:42:32 AM and supported by 58 members
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Londoners should decide whether or not to charge high emission cars for the pollution they inflict on the rest of us, not a luxury car manufacturer flexing their muscles in the courts.

I am proposing a £25 a day charge on the most polluting cars, like some 4x4s and high-powered sports cars, because we have to do something to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change.

Londoners will have a clear choice on 1 May – vote for me and we will introduce the new CO2 charge, or back Boris Johnson and he will scrap it.

Porsche have a clear vested interest in attempting to block the CO2 charge, because almost all of their vehicles are in the highest polluting class. Porsche should focus their attentions on cutting CO2 emissions from the cars they produce, and leave it to Londoners to decide how to tackle pollution in their city.

While the purpose of the CO2 Charge is not to raise revenue, we anticipate it will also raise around

£30-50 million in revenue each year, which will be reinvested in transport improvements across the capital, including massive improvements to cycling and pedestrian facilities in London. MORE!

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