Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Tax cars on mileage, period.
A single lorry does, quite literally, the damage of many thousands of cars, so there is little justification for doing it by a cars mass.
Similarly, BHP isn't a good indicator - an increase in volumetric efficiency does not automatically mean a rise in emissions.
Keep the taxes on road fuel for personal use, but add a mileage charge. Also apply taxes to the electricity used to charge electric vehicles, and add a mileage charge.
We simply need less unnecessary car use, and less cars, and anything that achieves that evenly across the board, is worthwhile. Aside from political problem in the eye of a generally uneducated public, electric cars solve little, and simply encouraging folk out of one type of car and into another doesn't help us a great deal.
The bone-idle lazy won't do it of their own volition, so they must be forced to do it instead. The major hindrance is that the body responsible for achieving all of this is the government, and they rely on votes from those very same bone-idle lazy car drivers. Until someone grows a pair that conflict will never be resolved. Meanwhile, the planet and our society hurtle headlong to an oblivion that is going to be a lot more painful than the short term pain of simply getting on a bike today.
forgive me, I know i'm largely preaching to the choir on that one.
A single lorry does, quite literally, the damage of many thousands of cars, so there is little justification for doing it by a cars mass.
Similarly, BHP isn't a good indicator - an increase in volumetric efficiency does not automatically mean a rise in emissions.
Keep the taxes on road fuel for personal use, but add a mileage charge. Also apply taxes to the electricity used to charge electric vehicles, and add a mileage charge.
We simply need less unnecessary car use, and less cars, and anything that achieves that evenly across the board, is worthwhile. Aside from political problem in the eye of a generally uneducated public, electric cars solve little, and simply encouraging folk out of one type of car and into another doesn't help us a great deal.
The bone-idle lazy won't do it of their own volition, so they must be forced to do it instead. The major hindrance is that the body responsible for achieving all of this is the government, and they rely on votes from those very same bone-idle lazy car drivers. Until someone grows a pair that conflict will never be resolved. Meanwhile, the planet and our society hurtle headlong to an oblivion that is going to be a lot more painful than the short term pain of simply getting on a bike today.
forgive me, I know i'm largely preaching to the choir on that one.