SO Glasgow's Lord Provost has taken delivery of a gas-guzzling Rolls-Royce, and she thinks that this will help Glasgow show its best face to the world ("MP hits out at gift to council of Rolls-Royce", The Herald, June 7). Well no, and it's a shame that Eva Bolander did not read her party's green agenda for the city and the city council's declared policies of getting 10 per cent of journeys in the city by bike by 2020 and of reducing car use in the city before she made such a statement.
This city is clogged by cars, little or no attempt is being made to reduce the congestion or pollution they cause and it's not just the current administration that supports car use; our one-time "cycling czar" Frank McAveety is reported to be furious about this gift to the city. He would make a better political point by dusting down his bike and cycling to the city chambers and parking his bike right next to this gas-guzzler.
Patricia Fort,
15 Lanark Street, Glasgow.
IT may no longer be politically correct to use the phrase "Beware Greeks bearing gifts" (some may prefer the alternative of accepting white elephants) but either expression would seem to fit the description of Glasgow's Lord Provost rolling around in a donated petrol-guzzling juggernaut. What a politically naive decision for Glasgow City Council to accept this used vehicle while simultaneously advocating an increase in the use of bicycles and public transport.
The Lord Provost may view the registration plate as G0 but council tax payers may translate it as "Go".
Malcolm Allan,
2 Tofthill Gardens, Bishopbriggs.
REV Dr John Cameron, when writing on carbon imperialism (Letters, July 4) could have included the fact that Scotland faces the same problems as he highlighted for Africa. The Holyrood policy to phase out the use of gas over the next decade comes at a capital cost of£450 billion to install the requisite number of windfarms as Scots use six times more energy from gas as that from electricity.
Currently, English consumers cover 92 per cent of the cost via the UK grid market but, of course, that would cease in the event of a vote for independence. Not a single MSP has pointed out the lack of a cost analysis in the Growth Report by Andrew Wilson. Does that mean that MSPs and the report authors have accepted that there can be no prospect of independence over the next 30 years until the renewable bill has been paid with the assistance of rUK consumers?
Ian Moir,
79 Queen Street, Castle Douglas.
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