32 SUVs disabled across Oxford

18.07.2008
Up to 32 SUV own­ers awoke this morn­ing to dis­cov­er that their destruc­tive vehi­cles had been dis­abled.

Using the ‘mung bean trick’, where­by a mung bean is insert­ed into the valve of a tyre before the cap is screwed back on, tyres were let down in Marston, Head­ing­ton, and the high­ly afflu­ent area of Sum­mer­town. Mes­sages were left under wind­screen wipers warn­ing the own­ers not to attempt to dri­ve their 4x4s, and explain­ing why it was felt that direct action had to be tak­en to resist their assault on this plan­et.

They were informed that more than a quar­ter of the UK’s CO2 gen­er­a­tion is attrib­ut­able to the trans­port sec­tor, and that many Sports Util­i­ty Vehi­cles emit up to 300% more green­house gas­es than the aver­age car.

They were also told that dri­ving a car is not a ‘right’, and that dri­ving an SUV is an unac­cept­ably self­ish act in the face of what may become unstop­pable cli­mate change.

This is a sim­ple action that any­one can do, any­time or place.