I AGREE with Rob Wilcock that this car-hating government has got to realise the political power motorists have but first motorists have to.

Instead of moaning all the time wake up and realise the power you have. There are 30 million motorists in the UK -- that's 30 million votes. We have got to make this government see that by hurting motorists either by ripping them off at the petrol pumps or hammering us with road tax or the government's very own cash machine, AKA speed cameras, then we will hurt the government at the ballot boxes.

I BOLTON (Mrs), Mosley Street, Blackburn.