I’ve never had any advanced driver training but it’s surprising how much you can pick up sitting behind a police class 1 driver for 17 or 18 years.

Can you see properly throught the wire grille? 😀

I recall being taught mirror, signal, manouvre. It seems now that mirrors are a waste of time as nobody uses them and on the odd occasion somebody indicates their finger catches the stalk as they start the turn. That’s apart from BMWs, which don’t have indicators.

Mine has. What I have to put up with is morons who think it’s hilarious to cut you up or not let you into the traffic.

For 40-odd years I’ve worked on the premise that 95% of drivers are complete morons and the other 5% are homicidal maniacs. It’s unfair on the small percentage of good drivers but it means I’m rarely surprised.

95% + 5% = 100%. It is indeed a very small percentage that’s left.

I drive 90 miles a day, commuting to and form work and by and large the driving is OK. The motorway is so busy that everyone is doing roughly the same speed anyway. Occasionally, someone leaves it too late to get to their exit or tries to squeeze into a tiny gap but on the whole the standards aren’t too bad. When traffic is moving freely, I find tailgating isn’t a problem either. The worse standards are in towns where people generally drive too fast or have poor lane discipline. It is always worse at the weekends or during holidays when those that don’t drive as much come out to play.
None of us are perfect when it comes to driving and a little more tolerance would go a long way.

Prime Ministers of both left and right have been angered by the BBC and declared war on it over the years,

It is probably getting things about right then.

As far as the original question is concerned, I think it was an error rather than any sort of deceit. C**k-up wins over conspiracy 9 times out 10.

I’m sorry. I’m only joking. Your post is OK. There may be reaction from those who think climate change is a sinister plot.

Filmmaker David Breashears has created a spectacular, two-billion pixel zoom image of Mount Everest to show the effects of climate change in the Himalayas.

Are you sure you should be posting that here? 😉

It’s a stunning image though.

charliehunt, Did you get fired from the BBC or something? You seem to have a particular vendetta against them.

steven_wh. Thank you for clarifying your post. I still think your original point that the plants were being closed due to CO2 directives was not strictly accurate but thank you for your explanation.
As far your proposed programme guide-line is concerned, why do you expect the BBC to do it? If you are interested, and I’m guessing you are, why not find the facts out for yourself?

For an organization that gets a lot of abuse on here, an awful lot of information seems to still come from there. If it is that bad and tells you lies, why watch it?

Then again there may be a useful programme about making tin-foil hats on one day. 😀

It isn’t the same thing at all but whatever :rolleyes:

As I’ve said before, I can only surmise that if you need falsehoods and made-up stories to further your argument then that’s your affair.

You can try and blame the BBC for not telling you anything but a simple Google search will tell you all you kneed to know.

The EU directive about power station emissions was do with curbing acid rain, not global warming. steven_wh put CO2 in his post incorrectly.