Getting fooled by no tax on 'environmentally friendly' cars
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I was thinking about this after hearing something on the news.
You pay no tax on environmentally friendly cars. Brilliant, what a selling point, I'll rush out and buy one now to save £200/year.
But, the more on the roads, the less tax they'll see, same goes for petrol, better MPG, less petrol used or even electricity instead.
So, how will they replace all this money they are willing us to stop giving them?
With all of this money we currently pay for our roads, what will happen to them with NO money from the motorist? They'll just become unusable.
I'd suggest charging people higher tax on environmentally friendly cars to subsidise the loss of money due to the lack of petrol they are buying, oh wait a minute...
You pay no tax on environmentally friendly cars. Brilliant, what a selling point, I'll rush out and buy one now to save £200/year.
But, the more on the roads, the less tax they'll see, same goes for petrol, better MPG, less petrol used or even electricity instead.
So, how will they replace all this money they are willing us to stop giving them?
With all of this money we currently pay for our roads, what will happen to them with NO money from the motorist? They'll just become unusable.
I'd suggest charging people higher tax on environmentally friendly cars to subsidise the loss of money due to the lack of petrol they are buying, oh wait a minute...
illmonkey said:
thinfourth2 said:
You think that the money from motorists goes towards roads
Nope it gets given to chavs
I know it doesn't go towards our roads, but its meant to.Nope it gets given to chavs
I'm not defending it, but where will the money come from for the chavs? Higher income tax?
or the magic money tree
Road Charging. Under the guise of reducing congestion or emissions, the infrastructure to allow this will be rolled out.
Polliticians might be
s, but they're (generally) not dumb. The lost revenue WILL need to be retrieved from road users as the long term shift to electric/ low tailpipe emission cars takes place.
Polliticians might be
s, but they're (generally) not dumb. The lost revenue WILL need to be retrieved from road users as the long term shift to electric/ low tailpipe emission cars takes place.They've put UP 'road tax' on the vast majority of other cars, to more than compensate - or didn't you notice? And if too many people swap to 0 rate cars at some vastly distant point in the future? Well remember when diesel was the 'green' future and was 'subsidised'?
Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Thursday 16th December 09:59
Just looked it up, basically the government make £46 billion from motorists (that must include tax on fuel which is the second largest tax in the UK (after income tax). They spend £4 billion on the roads.
The roads continue to get worse year on year due to massive under-investment. A friend of mine lives in Amersham and got 6 puntures due to potholes over 3 years, 2 in one night.
The roads continue to get worse year on year due to massive under-investment. A friend of mine lives in Amersham and got 6 puntures due to potholes over 3 years, 2 in one night.
Cemesis said:
Just looked it up, basically the government make £46 billion from motorists (that must include tax on fuel which is the second largest tax in the UK (after income tax). They spend £4 billion on the roads.
The roads continue to get worse year on year due to massive under-investment. A friend of mine lives in Amersham and got 6 puntures due to potholes over 3 years, 2 in one night.
Did you tell your friend he could always drive round them? Crazy I know.The roads continue to get worse year on year due to massive under-investment. A friend of mine lives in Amersham and got 6 puntures due to potholes over 3 years, 2 in one night.
Mr GrimNasty said:
They've put UP 'road tax' on the vast majority of other cars, to more than compensate - or didn't you notice? And if too many people swap to 0 rate cars at some vastly distant point in the future? Well remember when diesel was the 'green' future and was 'subsidised'?
There are also plans in the future to lower the emissions bands again, so any new low emissions cars would start paying tax again unless they can get the carbons down almost to the point where the air coming out is cleaner than the air going in.Lordglenmorangie said:
There is not enough capacity to supply homes with electricity we are boarder line on power cuts as it is. I want to know how we are going to generate this electricity for all these cars. Mind you we can always buy some from the French , because they have thought about this issue 
Windfarms.
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