uk drivers please note...
If you drive a car, please read -
>Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2.
>Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the
>'Pay As You Go' road tax.
>
>The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody
>about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had
>signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the government to at
>least take any notice.
>
>Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address,
>just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a
>link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.
>
>The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to
>purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use
>it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the
>BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a
>delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to
>school paid £86 in one month.
>
>On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
>know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been
>going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can
>probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.
>
>If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the
>constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new
>website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible. Sign
>up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax
>Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2.
>Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the
>'Pay As You Go' road tax.
>
>The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody
>about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had
>signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the government to at
>least take any notice.
>
>Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address,
>just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a
>link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.
>
>The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to
>purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use
>it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the
>BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a
>delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to
>school paid £86 in one month.
>
>On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
>know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been
>going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can
>probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.
>
>If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the
>constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new
>website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible. Sign
>up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax
Comments
~ also has signed
there is no reason to take overly much significance from petitions in general, least of all e-petitions.
Much of the Downing Street website is informative and serious. But online petitions of the kind the site has invited since last November are neither. Indeed, petitions are one of the worst possible ways of drawing the public into the political process. By their nature, they encourage single-issue campaigners and a crudely binary approach to complex issues which require the reconciliation of contradictory interests.
The road-pricing petition tells us that many people want neither to pay more for driving nor to feel they are being spied on when they use their cars, and that lots of them are willing to spend one minute protesting about it. What the petition doesn't do is provide any clue as to how journey times should be speeded up to the benefit of both individuals and the economy.
i want a truck next.
i say 'next', i mean i want a truck and i want to keep the current car and two motorbikes.
suggested reading:
- Introduction to Coase's theory
- by David Friedman
- Why Externalities Are Not a Case of Market Failure
- by Brian P. Simpson
clearly i shouldnt disagree with v :awkward::surprised:Tony and his cronies seem to suffer from a major case of what I call "Magic Button Syndrome" where they spout dictates from on high without really using what little common sense they posess, and expect some poor sod somewhere to find a big magic button to press that will solve all their problems.
I do however have complete faith in the fact that whatever solution the government (whomever it may be) finally arrives at regarding the issue of transportation infrastructure (constantly whining about congestion is just avoiding the real issues), will be ill thought out, massively expensive and will only benefit those who are raking in the profits from running it.
stagepublic school? he should know betteranyway... wtf is this?
tony says: I know many people's biggest worry about road pricing is that it will be a "stealth tax" on motorists. It won't. Road pricing is about tackling congestion.
so, it isn't a stealth tax? ...yet we don't know how much it will cost us until we get an invoice at the end of the month (or our journey). it's about tackling congestion? what makes you think that it will do that? increasing duty on fuel prices did not work, what is different about this?
i see myself agreeing with peter roberts' views (he created the petition) -
for many - thats a matter of opinion
Anti-government message stifled despite promise of debate - pistonheads
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ROAD CHARGING TO COST £300 A YEAR
That's the cost but how much will you pay? - pistonheads again