Fuel duty hasn't risen in a decade. It costs the tax payer 9 billion a year. It's an enormous subsidy.
London levy to hit 1m drivers.
- Thread starter Lord Alfred
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Fuel duty hasn't risen in a decade. It costs the tax payer 9 billion a year. It's an enormous subsidy.
monkeytassle
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Makes sense. Never had to pick up or drop off the kids at nursery.
My round trip is about a tenner
Roaring Chubby
Winger
Subsidised how? It’s heavily taxed
If the fuel duty goes up, it costs the tax payer directly at the pump and indirectly for goods and services.
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Deleted User 2893
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Our second car is a 55 plate and wont be affected.
bernardbresslaw
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How is it not going up a subsidy?
Governments decision to freeze it so that people don't see a rise at the pump. It should be going up. We're all paying to subside drivers.
bernardbresslaw
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Why should it be going up though? Keeping it the same is not a subsidy man
Imagine if no-one drove - it would be like the middle-ages.
Why should it be going up though? Keeping it the same is not a subsidy man
Imagine if no-one drove - it would be like the middle-ages.
Wey it literally is a subsidy. It's the very definition of the word.
Qwerty
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No, the cost of petrol before tax and duty is about 50p a litre. If the state gave companies money so the cost was under this, that would be a subsidy. Duty not going up with inflation is not a subsidy.
bernardbresslaw
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Do you ever use an aeroplane to get about? Now their fuel is subsidised to buggery, and it's not very good on the environment either.
Lord Alfred
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Aygo, 107?
pavarotti1980
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If any of this was to do with the environment they would just ban cars altogether from certain parts of the capital. That would solve the issue overnight
However this is a money generating scheme and it cant be dressed up any other way.
Lord Alfred
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Sadly this is the truth. You can barely move and your health is being compromised.
pavarotti1980
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But dont ban them, lets just charge them and say we made the effort. Oh and cream in £1billion in payments as a sideline
Oh and let the minging HGVs, buses and taxis away with it while we are at it
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Teed
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Used to be the case in London mate, you either got a taxi in the first day, or took your tools in has and when, if you worked in the centre of the city, there's no way you could park a car there.Imagine a tradesman jumping off a bus outside your house carrying all his gear, coming to do some graft for you
No, my wife did that, she stayed at home and looked after the bairns, we thought it was better that way, they got time with at least one parent and they walked to nursery and school once they were old enough.
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You can't do that though. It would cripple London.
pavarotti1980
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Why not? If this is done purely for environmental reasons then the financial impact is "just one of those things" and we should get on and do it.
The country will adapt
Khan would be booted out of office. No one is going to make a mental decision like that.
pavarotti1980
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Its not mental. It achieves what you point out in your posts. Get people out of cars and take responsibility for the environment. Making people pay wont stop them from driving whilst continuing to pollute as they do now
If this levy is intended to reduce emissions in London as is described then this is the only true way. You have to find ways to adapt. If this is disguised as environmental policy but in reality is a income generator then they should flog Khan publically for it.
We all know the true answer of course
