Sir,
Can we now expect a similarly severe soundbite to be fired at the subsidised UK automotive industry in view of their failure to bring the latest generation of lean, cheap-to-run LONG-RANGE electric vehicles ('EV's') to this country's fume-filled streets?

For less than £1.50 (lean and mean-minded motorists, rural commuters etc. please do the maths..) the following 'EV's - all of course unobtainable and unpublicised in petrol-protectionist Britain - can be fully charged up: the 120 mile-per-charge Nissan Altra, the 100 mpc Chrysler Voyager Epic family spacewagon, the 150 mpc GM EV1...All of these achieve 75-90 mph, have excellent acceleration and incur VERY low maintenance costs thanks largely to the vibration-free electric drives.

If our allegedly innovative government is ITSELF 'keen' to be 'seen' as both 'green' and 'lean'....could whoever IS now in the driving-seat at the Department of Transport and the Environment please signal loudly to the Internal Combustion Engine lobby that that industry's own 'control-freakish' and change-averse tendencies are no longer acceptable and that the oft-repeated car-designers' doctrine of Evolution not Revolution' contains the conveniently mnemonic letters 'EV' - twice over? Another handy memory-jogging wordplay for lean and green 'pretenders' everywhere , wouldn't you agree.
Or is the message STILL as hidden as this city cyclist's masked mouth??