I was glad to read today that the Conservative Quality of Life Report will put in a few good words for rewarding green behaviour by cutting people’s taxes. That’s always seemed to me to be a much better way to encourage green ways of doing things, rather than taxing people for misbehaviour.

The discount on lead free petrol soon persuaded most drivers to give up leaded petrol. Why not give us a discount on our enormous Council Tax bills if we make an effort to put in more fuel saving devices at home?

Many companies are discovering that being green makes sense in all sorts of ways. Put a return load in a lorry, and you increase your profits as well as saving a lorry journey. Clean up your own dirty water, and you save on wet waste disposal costs. Reuse your packaging, and you save on skip lorries and have a useful product.

Government should work with households and companies to make recycling, energy saving and cleaner processes worthwhile.

Poll after poll confirms what any elected politician who keeps in touch with public opinion could tell you. Many people think global warming ideas are being used by government to justify more tax increases. Government could prove people wrong, by offering tax cuts instead.

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