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"Future road pricing 'inevitable' - RAC Foundation"

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  1. chdot
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  2. spytfyre
    Member

    pretty soon there will be nobody on the roads except buses and bikes (trams will never make it, I'm predicting this now)

    Posted 14 years ago #
  3. chdot
    Admin

    Note date thread started…

    (My bold)

    It said that, in order to stop debt rising, the Treasury may need to consider a range of potentially unpopular revenue-raising measures including widening the scope of VAT, road pricing, scrapping the triple lock on the state pension and wider user charges for public services.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/21/imf-tells-uk-cut-taxes-jeremy-hunt

    BUT

    ‘War on motorists’

    BUT

    ‘Lab may be running UK soon’

    AND????????

    Posted 6 months ago #
  4. chdot
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    “They worked out that the drop in driving costs would lead Brits to drive an extra 50 billion miles a year. The obvious answer is to find another tax so electric motorists keep paying their share. But electric vehicles don’t use special electricity that you can tax. And a purchase or a registration tax won’t restrain gridlock. So you need some kind of per-mile cost. And that leads you back to road pricing.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/07/08/new-uk-government-forces-senior-civil-servant-to-delete-road-pricing-tweet/

    Posted 5 months ago #
  5. neddie
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    I just don't get that British people think it's fine to have to pay for a loaf of bread, which prices some people out of the market, but roads should be free at the point of use?

    Or put another way, why wouldn't you pay a modest fee to have uncongested roads, after already blowing £30k+ on a depreciating liability and instrument of debt?

    Money determines who really needs a limited resource. (I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is, sorry)

    Posted 5 months ago #
  6. neddie
    Member

    "DELAIDs", the new name for SUVs:

    DEpreciating Liability And Instrument of Debt

    Posted 5 months ago #
  7. mcairney
    Member

    On a similar note I got a bit of a shock after taking a test drive of the new Octavia while my car was in being serviced. The salesman knew I wasn't planning on trading in as my current car is only 2 years old but we decided to indulge each other and he obliged and crunched the numbers. The monthly costs came out at almost £500/month for a car with the same engine/trim level etc that I'm currently paying less than £300/month for! Almost £36K for a fairly nice, if ordinary Skoda.
    Absolute madness and possibly a sign that the days of PCP-financed white Range Rovers on every driveway are going to be a thing of the past sooner rather than later... DELAID reaction maybe? :-)

    In the meantime I'll be sticking with the mid-life crisis Leon FR for my 4000 miles a year...

    Posted 5 months ago #

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