The government plans to charge us by the mile, on a sliding scale according to road classification. I have been figuring and this is expensive, I don't see how any ordinary person on an average income can afford this, all this is going to achieve is to further tax the average already heavily tax burdened person, and price them off the road. So what then? Cars generate a lot of money for the treasury between the obscene amounts of fuel tax they charge, road tax, even the VAT you pay on car parts. I'm a firm believer that cars are only a tiny percentage of the pollution problem, aircraft and industry, including car factories, produce far more pollution, what about the eastern countries such as China and India, they don't have anything like the type of environmental controls and legislature that we have, they are a big percentage contribution to global pollution. I think the government are going for the easy target to show everybody how green they are. What do you think?
2006-11-14
23:08:52
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Mr Sarcastic
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Environment