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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If the Governments pricing for Road tax is to be based purely on CO2 output, then surely the question they should be asking is not what type of car do you own, but how much do you drive the car you own.

Presumably a V6 Omega putting out roughly 250grms CO2 driven 6000 miles a year, would give out no more CO2 than say super mini giving out a much smaller 125grms Co2 driven 12000 miles a year.

I therefore think that road tax should be banned completely and tax put directly onto the cost of petrol (yeah, yeah, I know we are already taxed 60% on every litre we buy)

Obviously you cannot please everybody, and people who do very high mileages would probably be better off under the old tax sytem, but by and large I think it is a much fairer way than what the Governement is planning for 2009.

It also means you will not pay the same road tax for a £1000 Vauxhall Omega as you would for  Bugatti Veyron or Zonda, and it would also encourage you to think more about using the car for unnecessary trips

[Mr Skrunts]

http://www.abd.org.uk/taxtable.htm

[JonArgraig]

Aye if road tax was done like my insurance... it would be much much fairer

[Mr Skrunts]

http://www.petrolprices.com/price-of-petrol.html

[Kevin Wood]

Aye if road tax was done like my insurance... it would be much much fairer

.. but it's all about the politics of envy. They hate someone choosing to drive a more polluting car through having the freedom of choice and income to do so.

If they had their way we would be travelling on buses provided by the state, who would decide where we go, when we go there and how fast we get there, never mind that they have stinking diesel engines, do single figure MPG and drive round empty most of the day.

Kevin

[JonArgraig]

Well this month my insurance on the mega has cost me a whopping £4...

true it's not been driven over 3 miles... but I diagress


I once thought that adding the the cost of road tax to fuel duty, hence doing away with RT all together, though that would just give them more of excuise now...

[HolyCount]

Aye if road tax was done like my insurance... it would be much much fairer

.. but it's all about the politics of envy. They hate someone choosing to drive a more polluting car through having the freedom of choice and income to do so.

If they had their way we would be travelling on buses provided by the state, who would decide where we go, when we go there and how fast we get there, never mind that they have stinking diesel engines, do single figure MPG and drive round empty most of the day.

Kevin

TBH if they did provide a decent bus / tram / train system more would use it !!  
In Montpelier they have an excellent circulatory tram system in the town centre, with trams every 10 minutes ( and on time!). These feed out to the buses on the town outskirts ( which also run regularly and on time). You rarely have to carry shopping too far and can get practically door to door !!!
Oh -- and the prices are very low and a ticket will take you anywhere within the system for a set period of time. So, if you just want to nip into town for a forgotten bit of shopping or somesuch, you can bus to the tram -- tram into town and back out again within the hour ( or whatever) on the one ticket ( which you buy from a dispenser at the bus/ tram stops).
Everybody uses it -- the traffic in the town is practically non-existant -- and there always seems to be enough room to sit down !!!!