THE Daily Express brings us something else to worry about – which is the only thing it does well. If your car is dirty, it’s carrying more weight, therefore it’s using more petrol, says a study. Not only that, it’s costing British motorists a massive £95m a year. The Express, very helpfully, tells us which part of the car is most likely to carry most dirt:
In winter cars carry up to 11lb of debris, particularly on the wheels, wheel arches and underchassis, a study shows.
So that’ll be the bits closest to the dirty roads, then? Thanks for telling us that because we’d never have worked it out.
What the Express doesn’t tell us, though – because logic is an alien concept – is that if Britain’s 30 million cars were cleaned once a week on a standard £2 car wash, it would cost us £3.12bn.
Whoever said “where there’s muck there’s money” wasn’t far wrong.
I think you’ll find t’were a Yorkshireperson who said “where there’s muck, there’s brass”, but I think the Express story is a load of codswallop.
Ah’m inclined to agree wi thi.