Road Tax

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....but a Honda VFR making just 16.5g of CO2, pays £78 a year, nearly 4 times as
much.

Not quite sure I would agree with their sums. CO2 emmisions are roughly linear to the MPG the vehicle achieves unless the engine is way out of tune. As a VFR will do around 50MPG is will probably be around the same CO2 as the average 1.6ltr car these days (100g) rather than 16g.

Still signed it though but I would rather they dropped road tax altogether and added the equivalent of the average cost to petrol so if you don't use a vehicle, it makes no CO2 and you don't have to pay. Use a car/bike loads and pay proportionally.

Lets see. Lets say the average car does 40mpg these day and pays £140 RFL on average and does 10,000 miles a year.

10,000/40 = 250 gallons = 1135 ltrs of fuel
£140/1135 ltrs = 12p / litre added to fuel.

Yep people would go nuts initially but then realise the sums add up. For people like us, doing say 5000 miles a year on the fazer that does 45mpg we would pay £60 a year. Pretty much the same as we pay now except I only do about 1500 miles a year so would save money.