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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to replace the car scrappage scheme with an environmentally-friendlier grant for bicycles. More details
Submitted by Yannick Read of ETA – Deadline to sign up by: 27 June 2009 – Signatures: 532
The government's car scrappage scheme is being described as green because it will destroy older vehicles, but many 10-year-old cars have plenty of life left in them; from a climate perspective, to send them to the scrap heap is money poured down the drain. This petition proposes replacing it with a ‘pounds-for-pedals’ scheme to give cyclists £100 to spend on a new bicycle, but in contrast to the car scrappage grant the traded-in bike would not be destroyed but shipped to the developing world to be re-furbished and re-used.
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Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.