It must be “Green Loon Day“ today – the LibDems have just released (on recycled paper) a 46 page plan for a “Zero Carbon Britain”. Which is a bit scary since we are carbon-based life forms.

Huhne also wants to ban petrol cars within a generation (by 2040). How he has changed from his days as a City slicker when he drove about the Square Mile in a big black petrol guzzling BMW 7 Series, with the self-effacing number plate “H11HNE”. He now drives a greenish poseur politician’s electo-petro Toyota Prius hybrid. The only green vehicle is a bike, like Boris has…