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I taxed my car last week and it made me realise just how expensive it's getting. The reminder quoted £190 but of course due to the budget increases this was then £205 when it came to tax it. For an ordinary 2 litre family car breaking the £200 barrier makes you think. It also prompted me to look at how it compares to other cars in terms of tax bracket and, although the difference wouldn't justify thinking about changing the car, it might well be one of the things I consider when I do change.
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Of course, the irony is that this is being done to protect the environment - but if you go and buy a new car to get in the lower tax bracket, you cause far more damage overall than just sticking with your old one. Mine is due at the end of the month, have been putting it off!!
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All this is very irritating. We are being priced off the roads - petrols/diesels - every private and company morotist, yet our public transport is slow, inefficient and generally hopeless. Therefore, many of us must still use our cars -- many of us here ENJOY using our cars anyway.
The USA is still selling mighty V8s by the truck load, a great amout of the population drive petrol pick ups, dervs are a rare sight. While I am well aware Chelsea tractors over here are out of place in Greater London, many country folk rely on a decent 4x4 for daily transport.
I am afraid our government is too short sighted for its own good. Good old blighty may be heavily populated, but surely pricing people off the road for the good of the environment when the USA, our Eastern European colleagues and several other nations are driving heavily polluting vehicles makes little or no difference in the great scheme of things. I intend to continue to drive my 330i BMW with gusto....
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>I intend to continue to drive my 330i BMW with gusto.
Interesting - is gusto at a different rate of fuel tax?
Happy Motoring Phil I
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Am I alone in thinking that more roads and wider motorways would actually reduce pollution ?
IMO due to the fact that the traffic would be flowing freely rather than standind still or stop starting there would be less pollution.
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100% right, but if the jams cause 10% of the drivers to give up their cars for good, that saves even more pollution. (not that i agree with that argument).
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Am I alone in thinking that more roads and wider motorways would actually reduce pollution ? IMO due to the fact that the traffic would be flowing freely rather than standind still or stop starting there would be less pollution.
Yes, normally when demand for a public service increases, the goverment would reckon on increasing the supply (schools, hospitals, etc.). So if demand for roads is increasing due in part to the mass imigration that this government has encouraged, why doesn't it build more roads? The shift towards smaller households also means that people are likely to travel more, and with something like 85% of all journeys by car, this too has increased the demands on the existing road network.
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I taxed my car last week and it made me realise just how expensive it's getting.
Consider it as a proportion of your total motoring costs (but be completely realistic about this figure), and you'll find it's very small.
about changing the car it might well be one of the things I consider when I do change.
The amount you would save would be an even smaller proportion.
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L\'escargot.
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