Why are British drivers unfairly targeted?

Question

You'd think we were solely responsible for all the world's problems the way this government taxes us.Our fuel prices are around 4x those in the US,bigger cars are taxed disproportionately. Now the government want to tax drivers who use their cars for work, even voluntary work, at a greater rate.
Even if ALL the cars in Britain were taken off the roads tomorrow, it would not make a penny'worth of difference to the supposed 'global warming' (even scientists seem unsure about what is causing it, if anything.).It would be like a gnat's pee in the Pacific Ocean.
The power stations in China alone produce more pollution in a week than British cars do in a year.What about the billions of other cars??
In Britain ,drivers are seen as an easy target, speeding fines, expensive fuel etc. If they go ahead with this terrible further tax, I for one will be making sure my carbon footprint is as big as I can make it in protest.(Even though it won't make any difference.)

Arctic V...Even ALL the cars in Britain don't have a tangible effect on the environment, it's all green propoganda.
You've obviously fallen for it.

Doc Huds...We pay 4-5 times your price for fuel and look at the answer from that man in South America...their cars are non-polluting obviously.
Drivers are easy targets.

Answer 1

well said im sick of this government picking on the motorist. if only we were more like the french and stand up against the powers that be, but they never listen to us or take note.

you made your point very well up yours Gordon brown & whoever will replace you.

Answer 2

This is funny!

You hear about how the world blames British drivers for all the world's ills. We Americans hear that the world blames us for all the world's ills.

I think the problem lies in a combination of problems.

1 - the OPEC countries have the rest of the world by the short and curlies. They know the Industrialized World need their oil and they are gouging us for whatever the market will bear. Unfortunately, the market will bear a lot.

2 - I blame environmental activists. There has not been a new oil refinery built in the USA in 20 years or more, I'm sure the UK is in a similar situation. Refinery capacity has not kept up with demand, and the refineries we do have are wearing out. The environmental wankers need to close their traps and allow some new refineries to be built.

3 - The most popular whipping boy for the problem is big oil companies. They are not guiltless, but neither are they the root of the problem. I believe that there should be a discussion between big oil and the government pointing out that repeated record incomes accompanying record gasoline prices might lead to greater public support for NATIONALIZATION of the petroleum industry.

4 - We the people of the Industrialized World. We are the real culprits. We have become adicted to petro-chemical products, and not just gasoline. We need to find workable replacements for gasoline, heating oil, plastics, and other petro chemicals. We must break the stranglehold OPEC and the big oil companies have over the world's economy.

Those are the problems. Now I'll be glad to listen to sensible solutions.

Doc

Answer 3

I do agree that there are to many car's on the road and that it isn't good for the environment, but seems like the government hasn't supplied us with alternatives like, decent public transport, alternative energies for cars, getting places of work, business's etc to set up a car share program for it's employees, where an employee in the same area as another employee pick them up and take them to work meaning less cars, or setting up more park and rides etc. All they are doing is just taxing everyone.

I agree we are being unfairly targeted and I don't agree with this extra tax at all, but I do think the goverment should find alternives, not just tax people.

Answer 4

I totally agree,I drive a 4x4 Land cruiser,and the way that some people have jumped on the band wagon about that,which will be resulting in my road tax being £400 by 2010.I don't live in the city,I live on the coast and I need it to tow my boat to the sea,but the best of all,it has a sign promoting LPG,of which it runs off,which is the greenest ever.
Some di.ck refered to me as a wanker,polluting the air an all,all I've got to say is get stuffed.

Answer 5

I agree. I now live in a South American country which has the cheapest fuel in the world. 2 pence a litre for petrol, one penny for diesel. The government subsidises the price to allow poor folk to have their own transport, as public transport is not well developed yet. So, it's not all bad over here !!!

Answer 6

the goverment have spent all the tax payers money in the u.k.
now they need to get it back quick,they're taking it off us now so they can say in the future look we made all your money back,forgetting it came from our pockets anyway,cars and pollution is just an excuse to take more money from us

Answer 7

Not just in the UK. Inform yourself about what is happening around the world to the same, if not indeed, heavier, effects (particularly in Italy)

Answer 8

We,Car drivers are a very soft touch,Easy money.