To get me on my bike
and reduce fumes, ha,
stats say average fumes are damaging my health
far less than not cycling would
if that's the main resistance I get.
Are stats also saying,
'You can cope with a lot more fumes
and that's what you'll have to do
now the economy's down;
a lot more will have to cycle
and drive older cars;
We'll have to invite dirtier companies to town;
'Get on your bike or we might
even have to slacken control
and step up coal'?
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Thanks, Douglas, for taking a look at the vicious circle. Things that were earlier discarded under duress could stage a come back. Such are the compulsions. Nice poem.