"20 miles a gallon? There's the problem in a nutshell - complete disregard for the fact the resource you're using is finite. Buy a more efficient car for a start."

So simple, isn't it Stig.

When you're sitting up there, on your high moral pinnacle, telling us stupid lower orders how WE ought to behave, without having the slightest idea of the circumstances of those you harangue, it must make you feel SO BIG, and GOOD, and CLEVER.

Some of us have cars with large engines for very good reasons. My 2.9 litre (saloon, not 4x4) is more economical when towing a caravan than a 2.0litre, though it is more thirsty when not towing.

Even so, I would now rather have the smaller one. GUESS WHAT! Nobody wants to buy my large but elderly car, and I couldn't afford to buy another for what I would get anyway.

I have to have a car because my journey to work is 30 miles at right angles to the direction of travel of local railways.

So perhaps you would, in your infinite wisdom, suggest a way in which I might follow your example.

Alternatively, you could just get over your own cleverness, and recognise that some may not be as well off as you.

Don T.