bicycle tax disc

[EddieNambulous]

Even better...and would keep the tourists well-behaved...

they'd make a fortune with a troll in Hyde park...

[d000hg]

People driving big 4x4s (especially newer ones) aren't really discouraged by high road and fuel taxes so it's really just a cynical exercise in grabbing cash for the government and allowing people who like to sneer at people in Range Rovers to maintain an illusion that something's being done.

If they only increased the prices on such cars then I guess you can see it that way. But lowering or nullifying tax completely on small modern cars is a great move and I think the average person would be interested in choosing a car with lower tax given a choice between otherwise similar models.

"pollution" does not equal "emissions" alone.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be more responsible - just that the government isn't serious about this - they haven't taken the really radical and unpopular steps that they'd need to if they were. They are just playing at it.

Yeah, much better to do nothing until you can implement a perfect solution in one go. Maybe in the Tory utopia ushered in next year we'll see such idealism come to pass

[Peoplesoft bloke]

But lowering or nullifying tax completely on small modern cars is a great move and I think the average person would be interested in choosing a car with lower tax given a choice between otherwise similar models.

Yeah, much better to do nothing until you can implement a perfect solution in one go. Maybe in the Tory utopia ushered in next year we'll see such idealism come to pass

Encouraging people to buy more new stuff is wasteful and misleading and will not save the planet. As for your ridiculous straw man - I didn't advocate doing nothing. I said the government were doing too little of the wrong things - and I expect the Tories will be the same.