http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw1j2Ng3ovA

I was driving to Edinburgh today to take my children to the Edinburgh Zoo and along the M8 there are a number of bridges that have had grafitti scrawled on them, obviously by some well-meaning environmentalists. Slogans such as Choose Life Not Oil and Cars Kill Our Planet etc.

Now im sure these people actually agree with these sentiments, but I do feel that they did not actually think through what they were doing.

Let me consider it for them.

Mistake #1... Ok, these bridges cross the M8/A8 and are about a mile or so apart. So lets consider how they got to the bridges....... Hmmmm.. By CAR !!! So there were either a number of activists, one on each bridge, or one person drove between them. Either way they got to the bridges by CAR. So those spouting about cars killing the Earth are drivers themselves. Hypocrites.

Mistake #2... In order to paint said slogans, spray-paint was used and in order to produce spray-paint, the manufacturer uses...OIL.. So the activists are promoting the use of oil by purchasing and using items created using OIL. Hypocrites.

Mistake #3... Now that the slogans have been sprayed onto the bridges, the council of the nearest areas will at some point, have to remove them, requiring a re-paint or grafitti removal from the bridges in question. Ok, so to remove the grafitti, the motorway will have to be coned off and council vehicles on site to progress the removal. So we have council vehicles and machinery to remove the grafitti, both of which will use fuel and OIL, and a coned off motorway. So as the road is coned off and the 2 lanes reduced to 1, we will have slower moving traffic and possibly queuing. So with queuing we have increased pollution in the area and in conjunction with the council workers we have a large amount of oil / vehicle induced pollution.

So, whilst forcing their views down the throats of the public at large the environmentalists have increased the pollution and are therefore adding to the problem.

So i would just like to say to these fools............ THINK BEFORE YOU ACT....

Does anyone know if the VW festival at Biggar is on this year ? Ive been a few times and its a great show, but i had heard that it may not happen this year...

Fantastic VW BEetle in the picture above. Does it belong to the owner of Blog Glasgow? I used to be a member of the West of Scotland VW Club and i own a 1965 Beetle. Although the VW scene isnt as popular as it was, there is still a thriving scene in Scotland and the UK. I go to the Scottish VW show every year, from the heady days of Doune to the new location in Biggar. There used to be a great show at the old RAF air base in Crail where we used to race VWs down a 1/4 mile track which was great fun. VW Action, Bug Jam and Run to the Sun are great shows that are a must for the VW fan and if you can attend this year, do so. I will be going to as many as i can in my bug.