road tax

Post by **pugvan** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:16

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/classiccars/sign
have a look.

Post by **perro** » 14 Jun 2007, 13:27

we should all be signing this at £200 per year makes sense to me

Post by **Horney** » 14 Jun 2007, 13:53

It'll never happen, the government want anything older than 10 to be off the road as they are more polluting. If anything they'll start ramping prices up for older vehicles to get them off the road.

Personally I think they should abolish road tax and just put it into fuel duty. THat way people who do lots of miles pay more, those who do less pay less. It's therefore a fair system, I feel robbed paying nearly £200 to tax my van when the roads are full of holes and I do barely 3,000 miles a year in it. The mini costs me £120 for a year and I do about 12,000 miles in that!

Nick

Post by **perro** » 14 Jun 2007, 14:06

couldnt agree more I think that the government are a bunch of robbin gits to be blunt. I never understood why the historic tax never rolled over .

I use the van for 6 months a year and lay it up over winter like most people I guess but if you dont try you dont get thats my argument so it hurts not to give it a go

Post by **R0B** » 14 Jun 2007, 16:28

i think you will find most of us on here use their vans all year round...

I use the van for 6 months a year and lay it up over winter like most people

Post by **Cruz** » 14 Jun 2007, 16:55

I use the van for 6 months a year and lay it up over winter like most people

I've done that before, not exactly as long as 6 months but running 3 vehicles is stupid so one car is going soon

Post by **Ian Hulley** » 15 Jun 2007, 08:09

sukhoi27 wrote:i think you will find most of us on here use their vans all year round...

I use the van for 6 months a year and lay it up over winter like most people

Too right Rob, many of the best 'Club' meets are 'out of season' ... whatever that means

Besides that it'd be a hell of a walk to and from work every day

If they want to make it green AND fair they should make all petrol stations stock LPG and Biodiesel. Make petrol cars run on LPG,(heavily subsidising the conversion) and make diesel vehicles burn cooking oil too. Scrap the duty completely on veggy oil burning and LPG.

Remaining non-converted cars should pay duty per mile and be either phased out or be recycled into green burners

Ian.

Post by **"WEAZLECHIN"** » 28 Jun 2007, 21:17

i signed it last time it went out, guess what the reply from the thought police was(government) !!?? that wont put me off signing it again though, just sign it "its free" . . . . . . and yes, if they really cared for the environment they would subsidise "envirofreindly" fuels, but they couldnt give a funk for it, the 80% tax on petrol sales is more important than life itself

gordon brown uber alles

Post by **Cruz** » 28 Jun 2007, 21:41

This petition is screwed.

Brown never flinched when he raped everyone's pension funds so scrapping road tax isn't even on his radar

Post by **Dan Wood** » 29 Jun 2007, 07:33

Horney wrote:It'll never happen, the government want anything older than 10 to be off the road as they are more polluting.

This is a common myth.

If you take into account the amount of pollution caused producing the energy to manufacture a new vehicle, it adds up to a lot more than what comes out of that vehicle's exhaust in its lifetime.

So by keeping an old vehicle on the road, you're actually being very 'green'.

Post by **ghost123uk** » 07 Jul 2007, 17:37

Well Gill and I signed it anyway

E D I T = Oh and I agree with you Dan

btw - it's the same with all this rubbish about not leaving your TV etc on standby. They use a tiny amount of elec on standby, but turning them fully off each night causes surges in cold circuits on switching back on the next day, This wears the equipment out faster causing you to have to replace it sooner, Then Dans comments about energy used to make the replacement, plus the problems of disposing of the old item makes a nonsense of the whole subject !!

Post by **phredd** » 07 Jul 2007, 19:41

Horney wrote >>>
quote "Personally I think they should abolish road tax and just put it into fuel duty. THat way people who do lots of miles pay more, those who do less pay less. It's therefore a fair system, I feel robbed paying nearly £200 to tax my van when the roads are full of holes and I do barely 3,000 miles a year in it. The mini costs me £120 for a year and I do about 12,000 miles in that!" unquote

This was discussed in Whitehall a few years back and it was given the bums rush.
To many companies running company cars and to many Whitehall Mandarins running big cars. Thats two groups of people you can not hit.
Answer = Gas it or SNAFU.
Phredd