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London’s mayor, Ken Livingstone is a man who knows how to grasp the nettle, to make the hard decisions and act on them. If his revolutionary £8 per day Congestion Charge for car entering central London had people aghast at his audacity, they’d better sit down before taking in his next strategy. Come October, owners of vehicles emitting 225 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre will have to fork over £25 per day to drive their behemonths through London, a city that alone “generates some 7 per cent of Britain's climate-warming carbon emissions.” The new charge is not so much about trying to reduce congestion,...