04-10-17, 08:34 AM
Thanks for all your thoughts,guys.
My thinking now is along the lines suggested of "pay for the fuel". Accepting that the real cost of IC engines is substantially more than the showroom price but has to include manufacture,distribution,service & consumables over life of vehicle, effects on environment in terms of pollution, whether atmospheric,noise,etc add in costs resulting from RTCs and the REAL costs are astronomical. So, accepting that we value personal mobility so highly, why not abolish the unfair VED system altogether & simply put the tax on fuel? The more you drive the more you pay. Not sure how you arrive at the £8 per gallon Tommy! If fuel did become that expensive and it may well do in the near future with increased global demand coupled with diminishing supplies then we may all be seriously looking at how we move about.(Hence the Honda C90 in the shed! :lol )
My thinking now is along the lines suggested of "pay for the fuel". Accepting that the real cost of IC engines is substantially more than the showroom price but has to include manufacture,distribution,service & consumables over life of vehicle, effects on environment in terms of pollution, whether atmospheric,noise,etc add in costs resulting from RTCs and the REAL costs are astronomical. So, accepting that we value personal mobility so highly, why not abolish the unfair VED system altogether & simply put the tax on fuel? The more you drive the more you pay. Not sure how you arrive at the £8 per gallon Tommy! If fuel did become that expensive and it may well do in the near future with increased global demand coupled with diminishing supplies then we may all be seriously looking at how we move about.(Hence the Honda C90 in the shed! :lol )