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Mike Ruff, GW editorKeymaster
Rishi Sunak is considering plans to charge motorists ‘by-the-mile’ amid concerns over a £40 billion tax shortfall created by the switch to electric ca
[See the full post at: ‘Pay-by-the-mile’ tax being considered to cover shortfall following switch to EVs]Meat-HeadBlockedElectric cars cause more damage than good, been mentioned on DK before!
This was posted earlier in DK SB, wrong utter wrong to a point but write to another.
Some of us cycle 12 miles a day to/from work.
Then at weekends do a whopping 20 miles all weekend.
So yes money terms could see the point, but you will still need to insurance and mot.
So just pay everything, cost of hire that vehicle/day. Use your vehicle x times
Hey presto dont feel robbedGraham CoxGuestIs this the same government that told us all to buy A diesel
Eddie BamberGuestWhen we changed VED to an emissions based system, some cars were £40, £20 or even £0 a year to ‘tax’. That obviously caused a loss of revenue to the Government That changed again in 2018 when all cars are now at leas £165 to tax. In 2018 I bought a 1.0 litre car and was looking forward to cheap road tax so this is how I found out. The Government are not losing out on road tax and never will be if they’re charging ‘per vehicle’ in the future for zero emissions vehicles.
Bob ElliotGuestor we could push hydrogen..tax it the same as fossil fuels…use petrol stations to stock the H gas and
save putting a 10 THOUSAND TONS OF COPPER in the ground for these electric ‘milk floats’…and build a few nuclear-boilers* by the coast to make the stuff…am i being a bit simple..?
(* a line of old Nuclear Subs lashed together with some 6.3mm cable to local CEGB ‘Sub-Station'(pun..oh yes)..should do it…2.5mm earth should be fine…)Meat-HeadBlockedThough someone tweeted the hygrogen is from oil!
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