Electric cars are potentially a £40BN threat to the tax take through loss in fuel duty.
Is pay per mile the only realistic future now for motoring?
https://news.sky.com/story/road-pri... pay per mile might not take up the shortfall
Electric cars are potentially a £40BN threat to the tax take through loss in fuel duty.
Is pay per mile the only realistic future now for motoring?
https://news.sky.com/story/road-pri... pay per mile might not take up the shortfall
Millions of batteries being produced and dumped is hardly going to be good for the environment.I agree, and would use the extra tax take to make electric power much more user-friendly to help people make the transition.
Personally I think all car companies should use a standard battery and instead of having petrol stations you just buy a new battery when yours is running out of charge, but that's unlikely to fly given it would involve someone pulling the industry together.
If motorists are no longer polluting the environment why should they continue to pay a regressive tax ?
glad you did the sums, yes there is effective road use pricing already. hence a new direct road pricing will need to offset against fuel duty and VAT to be fair all round.
evidently they dont respond to pricing - see above. lockdown was quiet because all workers, office, trade, delivery, stopped with serious effect on the economy. the roads contribute a very large portion of economic activity indirectly.
Thats a bit of a ''red herring'' in terms of the NHS - The ailments to individuals are just pushed back to later in life when the population gets ill from another different ailment they need to treat.
Also people live longer and State Pension costs are higher and Care for the Aged - In a way in terms of Health Service it was better when smoking bumped people off early. Get the tax money and then no need to pay them a State Pension or Care home costs
I’d happily drive one if it was able to do the miles required for my job on a daily basis.
The point I always return to is how are people going to charge them once they are the mainstream ?
Lots of people can’t even park outside their house so how are they meant to charge their car up ?
The thought process and the practicality behind the grand idea is pretty poor.
Millions of batteries being produced and dumped is hardly going to be good for the environment.
Thats one element I wonder about. I live on a street of terraced house, narrow pavements. Probably room for, at most, one car outside each property. Going to need to be quite some shift to see each of those houses having one small car that they run a cable over the pavement to. Presumably the tech will come.
Bit of an obsession with this "key worker status". Anyone who has to travel for work will equally suffer. My job role takes me all over the place. I can't do it from one location. As I look after beer many will see that as key.
They'd still be polluting the environment. It would depend how the car was made , how its energy is made etc. It would still cause far more damage to the environment than walking, cycling or public transport
So you are arguing for a tax on mileage but not one that aims to raise the sums currently made from fuel tax because there is still some pollution but not as much ? Perhaps that would need to be quantified and applied to other areas of the economy as well. It does seem that the environmental argument is moving the goalposts. We have a way of drastically reducing carbon emissions but this is not enough for you as the ideal is that everyone cycles or takes public transport. For most people neither is practical. What about the elderly ? What about people who live in towns, villages and the countryside? They will have to continue paying a regressive tax. Sounds suspiciously like an anti car rather than anti pollution agenda.
I have no problem with motorists paying tax as long as it is progressive ie income tax. I don’t see any reason why people should pay extra for using taxpayer funded infrastructure like roads and hospitals and I reckon if this were introduced it wouldn’t be long before it becomes operated by private companies looking for profits.
I don't think I voiced any opinion or agenda I just corrected you that car drivers would still be polluting the environment.
A bit like all other consumers then I guess.
A bit like car drivers then I guessquite, there are quite likely non drivers sitting there at home clicking and buying oceans of plastic tat from thousands of miles away being delivered by diesel chugging cans whilst eating frozen NZ Lamb, fruit and veg all flown in from the southern hemisphiere.