Are we not already paying a pay-per-mile system?

Question

A thought occurs! The further we travel, the more petrol we buy, the more petrol we buy, the more the government receives in taxes. Surely the new road charging system would mean we are being charged twice for the same thing.

Actually "just me" I ride a motorcyle and think you will find I would P**s all over your car any day!!

Answer 1

What really p****s me off, is the fact that it is GOVERNMENT BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS which have created the mess in the first place.

EVERYTHING is now centralised....hospitals, schools, parliament, universities, banks, train-stations, bus termini, welfare, housing, planning, building departments, health centres, supermarkets, post-offices....even bloody petrol stations!

No wonder the roads are congested, which breeds the further insecurity of children having to walk along overcrowded and dangerous roads, and thus being driven to school by mummy.

I can think of no less effective way of dealing with congestion than the blunt instrument of taxation, for the simple reason that fuel-taxes already cost a fortune, and if people could find an alternative to all this ridiculous amount of travel, THEY WOULD DO.

I'm all for "chaging people's behaviour," but perhaps the planners could start first, and show a bit of leadership, by starting to decentralise things back to where they used to be.

Give me local shops and services, local government and local factories, and I'll happily walk to work or to the shops! I'll even stagger on crutches to the health-centre if it's less than mile away.

Answer 2

If you can't afford the cost of operating an automobile (which is a luxury and not a right), then get on the bus and off the road so those of who are rich enough can get things done efficiently. I fully support efforts to price poor people and their junk cars off the roads.

Answer 3

You are right, but more economical cars have reduced revenue.

Answer 4

You better believe it.