What about the proposed increase in Road Tax ?
Horendous!!!
How does one plan for an environmentally healthier future that requires less car usage, less emissions that logically requires duty on less fuel efficient cars to rise, whilst still making it affordable to consumers in an environment when external pressures on the oil price are enormous?
I understand what you are saying, nut to me all this does is to "tax" the not so well off - thus making having a car elitist.
It wont actually affect the number of cars on the road just like putting the price of cigarette's up doesnt reduce the number of smokers.
I personally think you will now get more and more driving without road tax, just as more and more tobacco products are bought into this country from abroad.
I understand the problem, but do not think this is the solution.
Road tolls would be a better way in my view - but they would need to be on routes that have very good public transport - ie Cambridge to London etc...
Or base the road tax on the mileage travelled in the year - with the automation of the MOT process this wouldnt be that difficult to administer - this way, the more you use, the more you pay. Presently, if you have a more environment friendly vehicle and travel 50k per annum you pay less than someone with a not so environment friendly vehicle who only does say 10k per annum - but the damage to the environment could be worse in the "more environment friendly" vehicle.
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