Any government which introduced fuel rationing would find itself the third party for the next 50 years or so.
Non starter.
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I am with Duchess - the more miles you drive, the more you pay, and this can only be done by tax on fuel.
Isn't this the way all our other facilities work: gas, electric, food bills or whatever? (I'm leaving out water because we're not all on meters yet but it will come). The more you consume, the more you pay - what is wrong with that?!
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" this can only be done by tax on fuel"
As is already the case (currently some 80%). It's just that motoring/road use is a cash cow that governments can milk whenever they feel like it.
There is probably a case for making fuel more expensive to level out the playing field. After all, it currently comes out of the ground for free, and that will have to end one day. If HMG really wants to raise more revenue, it could try taxing aviation fuel, which might at least end the nonsense of African states growing cash crops for us instead of food for themselves.
HJ's Chinese fuel thread has a lot more in this vein.
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I think that you are missing the point of my original proposal, which was to give everybody the right to travel and the means for those who have to or wish to use alternatives to the car the means to do so.
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That's what we have at the moment, Brian.
Public transport is well short of perfect, but it will never reach the levels of public expectation. People want from a public transport system what they want from the health service. They want it available 24/7, they want it tailored to their own particular needs, and mostly they want someone else to pay for it.
It is one of those services that will always have people crying out for more money (someone elses) to be thrown at it without ever coming near to perfecting it.
And they want it there so that everyone else can use it and leave the roads clear for them to drive on.
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People, eh?
Not expecting a perfect world, just an improvement (as promised) on the current situation.
Tax, tax, tax isn't the answer without an alternative. Or maybe it is if you're more interested in revenue than solving problems.
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Lee
MINI adventure in progress
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