Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Women should stop admiring Ferrari owners

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Hilarious, but scary too.  Another inch closer to the Thought Police  trying 
to control thoughts as well as actions!  Scary that Sir David wasted  his 
breath talking about that.
 
John
 
In a message dated 12/17/2007 2:43:42 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com writes:

Hilarious article!

What next, tell women to stop admiring daring  and elusive badboys and
instead focus on nice guys with good  hearts?

LOL.

FG


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Chief  scientist in sports cars warning to women

Author: Richard  Gray
Source: The Daily Telegraph (UK)



Women must stop  admiring men who drive sports cars if they want to join the
fight against  global warming, the Government's chief scientist has urged.

Professor  Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control
greenhouse  gas emissions and it was time for a cultural change among the
British  public.

And he singled out women who find supercar drivers "sexy",  adding that they
should divert their affections to men who live more  environmentally-friendly
lives.

His comments were greeted with anger  by sports car drivers who insisted that
their vehicles' greenhouse gas  emissions were tiny compared with those from
four-wheel-drive  vehicles.

Sir David, who is due to retire as the UK's Chief Scientific  Adviser at the
end of the year, said individuals needed to change their  behaviour.

"I was asked at a lecture by a young woman about what she  could do and I
told her to stop admiring young men in Ferraris," he  said.

"What I was saying is that you have got to admire people who are  conserving
energy and not those wilfully using it."

Sir David, who  persuaded the Government to start using the Toyota Prius, a
hybrid car that  claims to have lower emissions than most conventional cars,
added:  "Government has so many levers that it can pull - when it comes to
the  business sector it is quite effective.

"As soon as you come to the  individual, however, they will buy a Ferrari,
not because it is cheap to  run or has low carbon dioxide emissions, but
because young women think it  is sexy to see men driving Ferraris. That is
the area where a culture  change is needed."

A Ferrari F430 produces 420g/km of carbon dioxide -  more than four times as
much as the hybrid petrol-electric  Prius.

Car enthusiasts criticised Sir David for attempting to lay the  blame for
climate change on a small number of drivers who own sports  cars.

Peter Everingham, secretary the Ferrari Owners Club, said:  "Nearly 90 per
cent of people who buy Ferraris are married so they are not  looking to
impress women by buying their car.

"There are fewer than  5,600 cars made a year by Ferrari. To suggest Ferraris
are a factor in  climate change is unhelpful."

Sir David, who will next month publish a  book on climate change called Hot
Topic, insists his comments were intended  as an example of the scale of
culture change that is needed in society in  order to combat global warming.

As chief scientist he has been  instrumental in driving the climate change
issue to the top of the  political agenda.

Three years ago he sparked controversy when he  claimed that global warming
was a more serious threat than that of global  terrorism.

Sir David said: "For a while I was quite unpopular at Number  10, but the
point is that the Prime Minister then understood this was a  very important
issue.

"Now I would go one step further and say that  our civilisation has never had
to face up to as big a challenge as the  climate change challenge of the 21st
century."


 



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