Abolish road tax
On the BBC news was an article on road tax increases (again) for the more-polluting cars. In my opinion, road tax is a totally flawed.
What is a more-polluting car? Surely the Government officials are not as stupid as they sound – you cannot judge a more- polluting car based on its engine size alone.
This is just my opinion, but my car is a 1.8-litre Mondeo, for which I pay £210 a year, for but someone else in my family has a new, more eco-friendly car, a 1.4 diesel and pays £35 a year ... but, this person does 2,000 miles a month for their job and I do 400 miles at most in a month. This equates to around 24,000 miles a year for the "not-so-polluting" car and about 5,000 miles a year for my dirty 1.8 litre gas-guzzler. Does this seem fair?
I think if the Government is serious about getting gas-guzzlers off the road, then it should put the road tax on petrol, say, another 50p or so per litre.This would make it fair, with no arguments. Of course road tax would be abolished with it.
This would stop a lot of people using cars for the sake of it and make people think: "Do I really need to use the car for the 400-yard school run?"
So £2 a litre and abolish road tax is the fairest system. Pay for what you use.
Mark Barlow
Lionel Hurst Close
Great Cornard
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17 July 2008 12:43 PM
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