It will put off people buying cars which pollute a lot unnecessary, when there are more modern cars that pollute less. Also, the tax hopes to encourage you into ditching your current car for a cleaner one.
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Yes, but you are blinded. The "Green" cycle of changing car to a modern one outweighs keeping an existing car. Reducing the carbon cycle this way is flawed and I am sure somebody like Fox will educate you further or explain this better.
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This is fine - and a tax on cars registered after the date of the budget would acheive this. It would affect peoples purchasing decisions, thats good.
And what happens to your current car once you are encouraged to ditch it? Does it vanish? Does it get scrapped?
No - somebody else will buy it from you and continue to drive it. Taxing EXISTING cars in this way has ZERO ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER.
It really is that simple.
It doesnt matter whether somebody choses an eco friendly USED car or not becuase the cars already exist.
It isn't even a thought that's entered my mind - I won't be changing because the tax is rising.
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Agreed, I am looking at a more uneconomical car which is a tree killer regardless... it's my hobby and I intend on seeing it through regardless of costs. Tax won't put me off, just peev me off.
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But people are allowed to buy boats, planes, etc that pollute a lot more then cars
(My last sports boat i owned could burn up to about 22gallons an hour of fuel...)
The pressure is mounting. It is only a matter of time before there is an about turn on this.
Im currently shopping around for a new car and this is going to hit me hard. My tax will go up from £120 ish to around £400. The laughable thing is that I am moving house and my mileage will drop from 15-16000 P/A in my diesel, to sub 3000 in the new one. Yet I will have to pay four times as much tax....
I will also be close enough to walk to work in 5 minutes, which means my car is off the road during peak times. None of this is taken into account though.
I have accepted it, but Im not happy about it. It doesnt make any actual sense, no matter what spin you put on it. I certainly wont be polluting as much as your typical Mondeo rep doing 100,000 miles a year in his Diesel mondeo, yet he will be paying £115. Go figure.
Im currently shopping around for a new car and this is going to hit me hard. My tax will go up from £120 ish to around £400. The laughable thing is that I am moving house and my mileage will drop from 15-16000 P/A in my diesel, to sub 3000 in the new one. Yet I will have to pay four times as much tax....
I will also be close enough to walk to work in 5 minutes, which means my car is off the road during peak times. None of this is taken into account though.
I have accepted it, but Im not happy about it. It doesnt make any actual sense, no matter what spin you put on it. I certainly wont be polluting as much as your typical Mondeo rep doing 100,000 miles a year in his Diesel mondeo, yet he will be paying £115. Go figure.
huh? cars that haven't been ordered don't exist!!!
thats the whole point, if NEW cars are whacked with huge premiums to make them less attractive then a) the arse will fall out of the gas guzzling market b) far fewer of them will end up on the roads c) manufacturers will be forced even more to extract more and more performance out of smaller co2 emmissions to keep sales moving of higher end cars
To me thats win/win, you influence the amount of gas guzzlers on the road and force change with the manufacturers.
Why would a car manufacturer give a toss if your 5yr old mondeo wasn't fuel efficient?
What if you're on a low income and happen to have a more polluting car which was within your budget to buy and run before but a doubling of road tax now take it out of that bracket?
What are you supposed to do? Throw your now worthless car (thanks to it costing a fortune in tax) away and walk? green yes but hardly the sign of a free country.
Rob a bank?
I'm absolutely bought into heavy charges on new cars to influence behaviour but unless calamity brown plans to invent a time machine I fail to see how he can influence behaviour I've already behaved.
Except they don't - at least not long term. Cars are built to order, or projected demand. Nobody ordernig = nobody producing.
Ok there are container ports full of standard stuff like Fiestas but 'gas guzzlers' like BMW's, Mercedes etc etc are almost always factory orders.
I thought he was MP for Witney, Oxfordshire?
He is... and your point is?
Im fairly sure I read somewhere that it is actually less green to destroy the car than to carry on using it. So its lose all round
