Road Pricing. Is this driving us to the limit?
Posted by Lizabeth on Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:15:51
Subject: Road pricing
This has been sent to me although there appears to be such a petition I have no time to check the figures, the information given nor the acronym (NIP)
"The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC,
the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. For a non-working Mum using the car to take the kids to school, £86 in one month. On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms, please sign the petition on No 10's new website"
Sign up at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
My comment is below
Does the Government realise or even care that this would be a crippling tax for many. Those on a minimum wage, and where there is no public transport, could not afford this. Is this to be their reward for choosing to work?
This is yet another green tax it seems the government is set to impose. Yet we all already pay a 'hidden subsidy' for renewables, on our electricity bills i.e. the Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) This has never been fully explained to the public, who pay for them and certainly there has been no attempt to offer a petition such as this.
Two wind turbine generating stations (WTGS) in Tony Blair's constituency, 'consented' Walkway and Butterwick which is in 'consultation' could provide the operators of each with about £3 million a year for 25 years, Yet all we hear is that the community will receive about £21000 a year from Walkway and about £25000 a year from Butterwick!
Devised by an Einstein of the financial world .Who else could devise a subsidy which can masquerade as a levy? The ROC system is the epitome of an inconvenient truth. Without this hidden subsidy would anyone be building wind power stations? This money could be better used. Surely the cheapest option is to reduce consumption through energy efficiency and conservation.
Road pricing as suggested is unfair, undemocratic and as usual atax that will hit the most vulnerable in our society.
Elizabeth Mann
*This is the term used by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the letter re the refusal to grant consent for WTGSat Whinash, Cumbria.
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