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Green motoring: Which government interventions would we support?26 Feb 2011by Donald MacKenzie In our last blog Green motoring: What are we willing to change to reduce emissions?, we presented data suggesting that most motorists might be receptive to greener transport policies, assuming that these policies were not too costly to their purse. Indeed, the ONS survey, from which we quoted that data, looked specifically at the level of support for potential government transport interventions to reduce carbon emissions and their findings were as follows:  While people are interested in greener motoring, the above data shows that they are somewhat half-hearted about translating that interest into support for legislative changes that could make them less well off or curtail their freedom of choice, even where that choice is illegal, as is the case with speeding. In fact, when it comes down to it, the above, taken together, would suggest an extremely consevative attitude to doing anything substantive to deal with greenhouse gasses at all. This does seem to match the usual attitude of the developed world that while climate change is important, few, if any, are willing to erode their quality of life to address it in practice when they face critical decision points which present opportunities to reduce omissions or to maintain their current lifestyle. While this research is approaching these questions from the point of view of climate change, it's much easier to see the responses as almost entirely lifestyle and financially determined with any green dividends being very such secondary to this. We shouldn't be surprised by this finding and there is no doubt that awareness of climate change issues and the need to address them is the first step towards acceptance of the bitter pill of properly dealing with them. One way to keep down motoring costs is to buy cheaper car insurance. The resources below wil help with that. |
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