You think our Government has some barn-arsed policies?
Nothing compared to this (now recinded) edict from a Chinese province:

uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090505/twl-life-us-china-smoking-9020220.html

Mental!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 5 May 2009, 11:39, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So thats why
the government use Jags to travel 500 yards to work. To aid fuel duty!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 5 May 2009, 11:57, Reply)

Sure I read something the other day about
our government relaxing or changing their rules on traffic lights to sync them up properly so that if you do the speed limit through town, you'll get almost all green lights - apparently the policy up to now was to either not care or deliberately put them out of sync so you are made to stop and burn more petrol every few hundred yards, increasing tax revenue. Never mind all the health problems or future oil shortages.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Tue 5 May 2009, 12:00, Reply)

Yeah
I heard about that as well.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 5 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)