[Stoves] "Those of us who believe that the WBT is critical to stove improvement"

[neiltm at uwclub.net]

On 7 Dec 2017 at 19:26, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

> It is a emissions and fuel efficiency test and everyone was 'cheating'
> (from my perspective as a writer) because the authors and test
> administrators allowed it.

The authors and perpetrators of this fake test by design were, presumably 
in cahoots with car manufacturers, engaged in cheating the motorist by 
design of these tests, even without the manufacturers taking a bad joke 
even further, risking exposing the whole scam.

The main consumer (hapless motorist) complaint about these tests was and 
still is, because in two whole decades they still show no signs of 
correcting it, that the manufacturers claimed MPG figures were mostly 
wild exagerations of what even the most economy minded driver could ever 
possibly achieve on the road, sometimes out by as much as 20mpg mostly on 
the smaller supposedly economy cars.  A motoring magazine exposed this 
scam quite well, but got one important detail wrong when it claimed that 
the tax man was also being cheated because he was awarding lower road 
fund licence charges to the cars on the basis of false economy claims.  
But it shouldn't have taken much arithmetic to realise that the tax man 
gave away in this way far less on average than they took from the 
motorist who still had to buy a lot more fuel over the year than the 
amount the manufacturers claimed he would, to an amount certainly greater 
than the rebate on the road fund licence, as road fuel price in europe at 
least is mostly tax!

It's called having your cake and eating it.  The EC in cahoots with a 
willing car industry bilks only the motorist, while simultaneously faking 
its green credentials for supposedly rewarding economy motivated 
motorists with one hand while robbing them more with the other.  The oil 
industry is happy as it suffers little downturn in fuel sold at the 
pumps, so the whole gvt/corporate mafiosi wins at the motorists sole 
expense who is lied to by both in unison.  AND consumer amnesia ensured 
that very quickly no one can apparently remember when this new normal was 
not so.  At the point where I finally caught up with a secondhand car 
that gave me far less MPG than I recorded, everyone I spoke too expressed 
disbelief that I should imagine it could be any other way round, and it 
had always been so, whereas in my previous 40 years of motoring it had 
been no effort whatsoever to always do significantly better than the gvt 
figures.

And as Crispin points out you have essentially much the same sort of scam 
being worked by GACC insisting on its non real world test that suits its 
purpose of disadvantaging solid fuel stoves to the point of their 
eventual outlawing so that the oil industry can monopolise the market 
with its LPG. Actually create a market in fact where none previously 
existed! If in cahoots with gvts, of which it is a mere instrument, it 
can force the richer countries to subsidise the poorer countries 
consumption of LPG, then why should they care who pays as long as someone 
does?  But beyond mere profit motives, and creating markets out of 
nothing while ruthlessly suppressing and criminalising the more 
empowering free or cheap alternatives, whether that be in medicine or 
cooking fuel, the most important agenda is control of populations through 
the artificial maintenance of scarcity, and biomass is free for the 
picking up up whereas LPG is totally controlled.  Ih Cheng just revealed 
to us how the Chinese authorities pounced on anyone cooking with biomass 
in the home at a time when every village and town was supposed to be 
making steel, as if!  In between ploughing to a depth of 2 metres and 
planting seeds way too close together.  There the crudity of the 
intention to destroy an economy and murder a population seems inescapably 
clear, since if anyone really could be that breathtakingly stupid for 
real, how on earth could they get put in charge of anything, but in the 
west they are just more sophisticated, only because they have to be to 
successfully pull the wool, that's all.  Even so, it doesn't take a 
genius to work these things out, and nothing like ploughing as far as 2 
metres below the surface to discover.

Neil Taylor