January 11, 2007
Road tax petition
In News, Travel | Tags: petition, road-tax, Travel | 4 comments | permalink
For those of you who have read my previous post regarding the proposed changes to road tax (here) it appears that the number of people opposed to this are starting to voice their opinions. In fact the most popular petition on the 10 Downing Street website is now the one opposed to this change. I urge all of you to head over to this petition and sign it now. At time of writing, there are just short of 250,000 people who have signed this, and I’m just off to add my name to this growing list.
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I THINK CAR TAX SHOULD BE SCRAPPED AS THERE IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THING TO PAY FOR AND TO CHARGE TO DRIVE YOUR CAR IS ABSOULTLY CRAZY…THEY PUT IT UP IN PRICE EVERY YR
I have had a driving licence for the past 37 years; my annual mileage has averaged about 8500 miles. Living in a rural area of Wales I am an essential road user to get to my place of work, the post office, my bank, my service garage, and to buy food aqnd clothes. My nearest major town is Carmarthen which is a 36 mile return trip. My annual Road Tax and high taxation on fuel (diesel)already amounts to several hundred pounds per annum. I recall that in the 1970’s when I started driving these taxes were mainly aimed at improving roads and transport. In recent years less and less of these taxes have been used on roads especially in this area of Wales where traffic blackspots and accidents are higher than average. I would support the tax if it was means tested. The concepthas been very poorly thought thro’ and therefore I object to the introduction as proposed. I consider current road and fuel taxes to be high enough - my main standpoint for objecting is the “essential user living in a rural environment.
There are better ways to deal with the transport problem.Our daughter and her husband were quoted a rail fare from Glasgow to Felixstowe of over £500. They could have flown half way round the world for that. Lets see some real vision and innovation used in this matter.Rule britannia !
Comment from mr and mrs Joannou on February 20th, 2007 :
There are better ways to deal with the transport problem.Our daughter and her husband were quoted a rail fare from Glasgow to Felixstowe of over £500. They could have flown half way round the world for that. Lets see some real vision and innovation used in this matter.Rule britannia !