They say that cars are going to be charged for using roads to "ease congestion" and "cut emissions".
I already pay road tax and fuel tax to use roads. If we pay congestion charges will these taxes be lower (as is the case in France)? I some how doubt it.
When will this Government realise that we are not idiots and know that these crazy "green" taxes are not designed to save the planet they are purely a way of filling the huge hole in the Government's coffers that Iraq and Afghanistan has left.
Charging someone £1000 to drive a Range Rover is not going to reduce global warming, neither is charging me an extra £20 to drive on the M1. What is needed is a larger strategy that looks for cleaner ways to generate electricity, or investment in a more reliable public transport system so no one has to use a car, or could actually start with making the US, china and India sign the Kyoto Treaty. Without these nations signing, we all might as well drive Range Rovers.
What do you reckon?
2006-11-30
22:42:23
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dodgygeezer66
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