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I think it would be better, as it may deter some people from purchasing more polluting vehicles
2006-10-25 03:27:30 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
No why should they - they already pay extra for the fuel.. This is enough of a nanny state without being told what car you can or cant have. When a bigger effort is made by the likes of packaging companies to reduce pollution from plastics etc. then maybe people will take the whole thing seriously.
2006-10-25 03:31:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What we've to remember is that 'gas guzzlers' can include mumsy family buses, such as the Ford Galaxy, as well as the likes of the Range Rover V8.
It's all very nice and well telling us all to buy little shopping cars, but some pople do have kids, and luggage, and keep finding that those new speed humps keep wrecking the suspension on the cheap shopping trolley.
Also, if you have a so-called 'child murdering, seal slaughtering gas guzzler' you're already paying more in fuel tax and road tax anyway.
Whatever way you look at 'global warming' I have my doubts over the green lobby temselves. Sawpping our horses for cars over the last century or so has done wonders for health, as there's no horse excrement spreading diseases now. Friends of the Earth never tell you that. Nor will they tell you that you can buy a Ford Fiesta nowadays that pollutes 20 times less than the Fiesta you bought 20 or so years ago, or that unleaded fuel and catalytic converters give us better air quality. They'll never tell you that the ozone layer hole is shrinking, either.
And has anyone else notice that while the eco-lot will moan and moan that we're slaughtering the planet, they'll never, ever acknowedge any improvements.
In reality. anti-4x4ism is really driven by politics and envy, with policies drawn-up by those tho don't live in the same world as you and me. This is also a good golden egg for the politicans too, a good money maker for them, as if the motorist in general wasn't enough of an easy mugging target...
2006-10-25 04:23:09 · answer #2 · answered by mr_carburettor 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i drive a 4x4 mitsubishi pajero 2.5 td which is classed as a gas guzzler, but let me tell you, i use less diesel for the mileage i do as appossed to the suzuki escudo and the mercedes 190 i had not long ago and the emissions are a lot lower too....150 on the emissions which is very low. I think the most fair way would be to up petrol prices and abolish road tax like other european countries. The government would get a lot more revenue that way than penalising people for the cars they use. Some people have to use these types of cars....look at farmers and combined harvesters and tractors that have to use the roads also, is the government going to charge them more for driving what they see as gas guzzlers.??
2006-10-25 03:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by heleneaustin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO as it is against our human rights and it's also discrimination against the car driver, after all we pay 80% tax on fuel so we are already paying more tax than regular cars, plus our Road Tax is around £30 more per six months so what else do the gov want BLOOD
2006-10-27 23:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Tazman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its nothing to do with environment or emissions! its all about the labour party's age old begrugment of people who work hard so that they buy nice things. on top of that they finished what they started in the 70s by killing what industry's we had left, and they got wars to fund! so welcome to this governments new income...motorists!
my mother drives a 1.4 leter Astra from 1994
My father drives a 2 leter Land Rover 4 *4
I drive a 2.5 Leter MG
My mothers car is the worst for the environment!!! it does 40 miles to the gallon and has a dirty old engine with a primitive catalater converter!
Second is mine doing 30 MPG with a modern clean engine
The best by far is my fathers 4*4 delivering close to 50 MPG with a modern clean engine!!
people need to look into things and get presented the facts befor they go on a 4*4 whitch hunt!
2006-10-26 00:31:54 · answer #5 · answered by chris c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they shouldn't as they are not using fuel when they are parked up, in fact they should pay less for parking as they pay more for fuel. This is only a way for that git Brown to raise more stealth tax and nothing to do with being green.
2006-10-25 03:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by hakuna matata 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no as they already pay more for fuel and road tax and this is not a fair schem for local buiseness who rely on this kind of transport what could be a bit more fair is charging gas guzzlers by how many miles they do
2006-10-25 03:54:52 · answer #7 · answered by paul s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my gas guzzler has just been filled with asda's finest veg oil, at half the price cost of the petrol pumps,and to save the enviroment....... so that should compensate for the extra parking charges, or i might just let some lower life-form car pay their parking fee, and plonk my beast on top!! ha ha!!
2006-10-25 03:41:35 · answer #8 · answered by certified_psychopath 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. because even though there are alot of idiots out there who drive huge vehicles unnecessarily, there are some of us who have no choice, and we are already paying more for gas. i drive a mini van because i have 3 kids and if i didn't we would never be able to have any of their friends over, because there would be no room for anybody else. plus i use it to carpool which keeps extra vehicles off the road.
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