It's the answer to all our environmental concerns
OK, so, they're erecting wind farms all over the country - which is so unbelievably stupid (expensive, intrusive, hardly any jobs, interferes with radars, tears up massive chinks of land, kills birds, costs the tax payer extra money to fund, not exactly 'green' either), but anyway, that's not my point for the day....bear with me...
And they're 'trying' to encourage public transport and discourage the use of cars. Parking fines, bus lanes etc... now, the only problem I have with cars is that every street is obliterated by line upon line of parked vehicles. It's not exactly pretty, and it looks so clausterphobic. But this isn't really my point either...
My point is, a solution to our energy problems and our parking ones - lets go up into the sky! Instead of squabbling over inefficient, highly improbale renewable energy sources lets go crazy and take nuclear into our hover engines!
The land will be free again, just think about it - where we now have tarmac and cobbles, we could have grass and trees - every street could be a park (or a wood or a lake or an outdoor sculpture area!?). That would help with our inner-city-concrete-everywhere problems, children would be 'safe to play' outside the house again, the architecture in our towns and cities could be seen and enjoyed again minus the clutter of the automobile - and we could still nip to the shops, to school, to work, to the beach, to wherever in our spectacular flying machines - yay!
And as for energy, no fossil fuels would be harmed in the making of this fantasy - that'll keep the Kyoto Protocol guys happy. I might allow a solar panel on the back, just for the sake of experimentation or as a back-up in the extremely unlikely case of nuclear failure (despite what the alarmists out there think).
And my car would be pink, with orange stripes and as shiny as hell - do you think calling it Icarus would be tempting fate?