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How can citizens reduce their carbon footprint when they are being suppressed by Govt.?

Dec 19, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
All this talk about the LCD’s and how each citizen can contribute towards the reduction of Greenhouse gases in Guyana is bull.
Here we have a Government that is forcing the citizens of this country to buy used cars because of the huge cost that they have to pay for duty tax on various engine sizes, not to mention the vehicle must be four years or older not to attract VAT.
These are the main factors that are pushing people to buy older model of vehicles, let’s face it, transportation is no longer a luxury in this country but a necessity.
I can guarantee you that most of these older models of vehicle do not have a catalyst convertor in their exhaust system or they don’t work.
A two-way catalyst convertor which most new model vehicles have is to convert the exhaust gas; carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide (CO2), any science student would tell you that CO is more dangerous to us humans in terms of our health and is also adding to Global Warming.
The point I am trying to make is that whilst this government wants us to embrace the LCD’s and be friendly to the environment they are forcing citizens of this country to buy vehicles that are dangerous to our health and the environment.
I am sure they (the ruling party) would say that they have to control in influx of vehicles into this country by retaining the high duty cost, but instead of them (the ruling party) trying to expand the road network at a more rapid rate they are restricting citizens from their economic (we all know how small that is) and social development.
When the working class people are trying their best to establish themselves under these difficult and bias systems in this country, the first thing that they think about is migration.
Like everything else in this country we are being conned and trampled on as citizen, I would like to suggest to the media houses to do an analysis on the Manifesto that the ruling party was campaigning on to find out what percentage of that has actually materialized.
Shawn Padmore

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