By Leftlane Staff
Monday, Apr 24th, 2006 @ 1:19 pm

Popular automotive columnist and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has published his thoughts on the debate over oil, alternative fuels, and the future of the automobile. “The message is clear. As fast as politicians wrap the motor industry up with noise, emission and safety red tape, car designers are unravelling the constraints with more and more power,” writes Clarkson. “We already have a 240bhp Golf. That’s twice as much as we were given 20 years ago and if that rate of change keeps going, people learning to drive today will finish their career in a family hatchback with 1,000bhp under the bonnet.” Of course, environmentalists argue that such excess will only result in economic and social turmoil. But Clarkson won’t hear any of it. “Death, famine and disease all topped off with a light sprinkling of nuclear holocaust. And it’s all Porsche ’s fault for turbocharging the 911,” he writes. “Unfortunately, the people who tell us these things tend to be card-carrying lunatics with an agenda [...] In fact, don’t worry about anything because, when the chips are down, man always finds a way.”

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