USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
If the tax I pay on petrol was spent reducing global warming (how I don't know), then the UK Gov could justify it. But to keep raising the price, to effectivly price me off the road is stupid. There is no viable alternative means of transport in this country. If they spent all the tax improving public transport it might help, but no.
The rail companies increase ticket prices, to put off customers because apparently too many people take the train and they need to reduce this number (or invest in new services - too much cost). Buses are hopeless, no time table, poor routing, driven by drunken albanians, dirty, poluting (8 miles to the gallon, no emissions control).
So I continue to do the same mileage, because I have to, not because I decide on a whim to drive an unnecessary 100 miles twice a week. It just costs me more.
If I sell my car, it will be shipped to North Africa, where someone else will drive it for the next 20 years, and I will have to buy a new one (with a smaller engine), but the environmental damage caused in making this car is greater than the damage my current one does in just driving it.
As I said before, we in the UK are killing our economy in an attempt to save the planet on our own. This is stupid. Especially as our influence on global warming is far from proven.
Motoring alone seems to get caned. Why not power stations, businesses (we don't recycle at all at work), farming (cows -major producer of methane), air travel (no tax on kerosene, and how can it be ethical to let someone fly to Barcelona for £20, talk about unnecessary travel - although cheaper than driving to Bognor).
The best thing the Gov could do to reduce my carbon footprint is to pay me to insulate my house. I still have no curtains or carpets after 10 years, but there is no grant to assist me in doing this, and without it I can't be bothered.
It is all rubbish.
The rail companies increase ticket prices, to put off customers because apparently too many people take the train and they need to reduce this number (or invest in new services - too much cost). Buses are hopeless, no time table, poor routing, driven by drunken albanians, dirty, poluting (8 miles to the gallon, no emissions control).
So I continue to do the same mileage, because I have to, not because I decide on a whim to drive an unnecessary 100 miles twice a week. It just costs me more.
If I sell my car, it will be shipped to North Africa, where someone else will drive it for the next 20 years, and I will have to buy a new one (with a smaller engine), but the environmental damage caused in making this car is greater than the damage my current one does in just driving it.
As I said before, we in the UK are killing our economy in an attempt to save the planet on our own. This is stupid. Especially as our influence on global warming is far from proven.
Motoring alone seems to get caned. Why not power stations, businesses (we don't recycle at all at work), farming (cows -major producer of methane), air travel (no tax on kerosene, and how can it be ethical to let someone fly to Barcelona for £20, talk about unnecessary travel - although cheaper than driving to Bognor).
The best thing the Gov could do to reduce my carbon footprint is to pay me to insulate my house. I still have no curtains or carpets after 10 years, but there is no grant to assist me in doing this, and without it I can't be bothered.
It is all rubbish.
