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| Posted By: jim thornton Posted On: Sep 20, 2001 Views: 510 | just to set people off. I suspect that our UK road tax regime is overall approximatley right but that we have too many cars and not enough use of rail because so little road tax is collected at the point of road use. Fixed costs such as licences discourage driving less than paying the full cost of each trip as people do with rail. |
| Posted By: isa Posted On: Nov 16, 2002 Views: 494 | RE: just to set people off. Nonsense, if car drivers really paid the full cost their habit causes, pollution, noise, injuries, delay to others etc., the price of petrol would be doubled. ian |
| Posted By: landranger1 Posted On: Sep 13, 2005 Views: 354 | RE: just to set people off. If trains and buses ran on time and were not filthy and crowded they would be used more. Who wants to stand for several hours on a train. The major factor that has hit trains is a short sighted Government years ago that got rid of local branch lines. They are also bloody expensive and for people in rural communities are impossible to get to. The Government has milked the cash cow dry and it is about time they cut their own inefficiencies and stopped claiming a pound a mile in travel expenses in cars and travelled by public transport. This is just the tip of a croupt government wasting our money |
| Posted By: Nofal Elias Posted On: Apr 15, 2008 Views: 188 | RE: just to set people off. How about for one week only we leave our cars behind and use public transport instead, you can imagine the chaos that will create, also one week of no income to the goverment, and no sale to petrol companies .... wow that would be a dream. If we extend that to two weeks, then we 'the people' will set the fair tax on fuel not the goverment. The goverment is quite happy to find £5bn to sponser illegal war in Iraq, but always tell us they have to increase taxes to be able to afford education, NHS, pensioners .. etc |