I think that I lost my mind. Something is going terribly wrong with me. I am sure it is me. I read that Brussels is planning to use the environment as an excuse to bully its citizens. This is what I read today: “Europe debates end of the road for sports cars”. This header was taken from an article by the Financial Times (read here).

It says that a MEP (Member of European Parliament) is investigating a ban on cars that travel faster than 162 km/h. Mr. Davies, a British Liberal Democrat, considers these cars “boys’ toys” and he wants them banned from public roads by 2013. He suggests that an exemption is to be made for car manufacturers that produce less than 500 cars a year (read: British manufacturers). You can imagine that the Germans are against his idiotic proposal.

What is the point? As far as I can tell this is about income distribution. Those cars emit… how much carbon dioxide…? Besides, as my flat mate pointed out, those driving Ferraris are already paying more taxes to cover for the extra emissions. In the end, it would be more effective to reduce the consumption of the “average car” than to bully the few who can afford a sports car. This, though, is more difficult to sell to voters.

Banning airplanes and sports cars won’t do anything for the environment. It is like saving a near-bankrupt company from its end by buying cheaper pens… It is pointless. Are we paying the boys and girls in Brussels to annoy us with their lack of abstract views and coherent policies?