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"Future road pricing 'inevitable' - RAC Foundation"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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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 # -
Note date thread started…
(My bold)
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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.
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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 # -
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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.
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Posted 5 months ago # -
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 # -
"DELAIDs", the new name for SUVs:
DEpreciating Liability And Instrument of Debt
Posted 5 months ago # -
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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