2006-12-30 23:12:08 · 13 answers · asked by Drop the donkey 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
No offense - but how could I be BETTER off?
I pay tax to buy my car, tax (70%) on my fuel, vehicle excise duty (road tax) for the priveledge of owning it..and now they want to charge me to use the *&(^^(^(*^ing roads!!
Imagine. In the UK - the average car does 10 to 12 thousand miles a year....some people have wages below that....
welcome to the stone age...well done New Labour, well done.
2006-12-31 01:35:17 · answer #1 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Worse off. By far.
This is a retrogressive tax, which does nothing to address the main issue - carbon emissions and global warming. Your carbon footprint is directly related to how much fuel you use, and NOT just your mileage. Drivers of big gas guzzlers will not pay more, there is no incentive to change your driving style to improve fuel consumption.
Unless you live in London, public transport is a patchy joke at the best of times. Up here in the stix, there are 4 buses a day, 2 of which are already packed with schoolkids.
How will 'they' know how far you have driven? Well, by making it compulsory to have a GPS driven electronic spy in your car.
This is an invasion of our privacy, and yet another chip away at our rights of freedom. Had this been suggested in any of the european countries, we would be experiencing some sort of national strike. But seeing as this is the UK, we will all lie back and accept it.
I quake at the thought of not being able to go for a quiet drive in the country without someone somewhere knowing about it.
And of course foreign cars and lorries will not be charged, they will just benefit from the reduction in fuel excise duty.
Sorry to say, but the hated fuel tax is the best way to change behaviour in a greenish direction. Perhaps businesses could recruit people who live nearby, ending the common 70-90 mile daily commute.
2006-12-30 23:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by ffordcash 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never mind how much more expensive running your own car will be, how much extra will it cost the road hauliers?
Think of all the Tesco trucks, Sainsbury trucks, Shell tankers, BP tankers, brewery drays, car tansporters, etc, etc, that will be charged £1 per mile. To deliver your groceries, petrol/diesel, beer, new car, or whatever.
They won't absorb the cost - they will, quite rightly, pass it on to YOU, the consumer. Therefore, just about everything you buy will cost more. This is because 99% of all purchased goods and products travel by road at some point.
Road pricing is a very, very bad idea...
2006-12-31 00:04:03 · answer #3 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you for real!Of course you will be worse off.If you live in the country and have to travel to work like me,at £1 a mile that works out at about £20 a day or £4000 a year
2006-12-30 23:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every body would be worse off fuel prices might drop, but everything else would increase in price, mars bars would cost about £2 due to increased haulage costs and delivery costs going through the roof, and there's no way i would except anybody putting a permanent tracking device in any of my vehicles, plus it would cost me personally £138 per week to take my kids to see their mother, this is more than my weekly available income, the only people who would be able to afford this sort of cost are the very rich, everybody else would have to struggle, would you be better off ?
2006-12-31 04:23:58 · answer #5 · answered by saint 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we'll all be worse off, of course, because cars are essential transport in the suburbs. Public transport is not effective, the schedule is full of holes and the price is too high. If you want to take people out of their cars, you have to put in a wider network of buses and trains, and more of them, at cheaper prices. The politicians, who live in London and use the tube, don't recognise the problems of workers who live 20 miles from the centre, using tube, rail and bus to get door to door. If they were based in Bromley, say, and had to travel to London every day then we would see enormous improvements in rail and bus services and a drop in price ...!
2006-12-30 23:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i am a taxi driver and i do about 221 miles a day i work 5 days thats 1105 miles a week and i earn about £600.00 a week so the goverment will have to keep me for what i owe
2006-12-30 23:15:57 · answer #7 · answered by colin050659 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the other driver were to report this to the police due to you damaging his car then yes you would be charged with a hit and run, the speeding would be your word against his because the police cannot cite you for that unless they see it.. As for what else might happen, your mom will be the one that gets the notice and or visit from the police and you will need to stand up and take the consequences of what will happen..
2016-05-22 23:22:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep definatly, when I rive through to see my kids at the weekend it would cost me £160. I would therefore be better getting three different trains and taking 3 hours there and three hours back. waste of a day when I can drive there in a little under an hour and a half
2006-12-30 23:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously worse off,car drivers are paying enough as it is
2006-12-31 00:51:42 · answer #10 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋