Quote from: Binary Shadowgood god man you cant put fuel tax up as people wont be able to afford to go to work FFS

but charging per road wont make any difference to their journey???  

its a stealth tax damnit itll work out more expensive to go anywhere!

at the end of the day if evryone gave up there car then the government would have noone to tax and theyd put taxes up elsewhere.

Road tax doesnt even go on the roads it pays for policing football matches and saturday nights out and hosptitals that have to have alcohol induced injuriy support, NHS computers that dont work, dole cheats  etc etc :x

god damn immigration and benefit fraud needs to be sorted out

Look at how well southern ireland is doing - their economy is nothing short of amazing. Tax on income is a little higher, but there is no NHS. Roads are a lot better than the UK - theyre all getting rebuilt or new ones building.

Fuel costs 70p per litre. The government did recently buy themselves a lear jet though...

Traffic density in Eire must be a tenth of the UK though.

Id safely say that Dublin is the worst city to drive round in Europe.

DHL reckon it is the slowest in europe.

Im quite happy paying about Ã,£10 a month in road tax tbh. My cars only a 1.3L which means my 6 monthly bill is Ã,£60.50.

I think Ã,£10 a month is a fair price to pay for new roads tbh.

Pay per mile Id be paying sh*t loads, I once did over 1000 miles in 1 week and 800 the next. If have aht ecash Ill easilly do the miles.

Quote from: mr_rollIm quite happy paying about Ã,£10 a month in road tax tbh. My cars only a 1.3L which means my 6 monthly bill is Ã,£60.50.

I think Ã,£10 a month is a fair price to pay for new roads tbh.

Pay per mile Id be paying sh*t loads, I once did over 1000 miles in 1 week and 800 the next. If have aht ecash Ill easilly do the miles.

Ive done over 2000 miles this week in my truck and added about 1200 to the car. Imagine the costs of that! No way would it work.

I went on the M6 to Edinburgh last week. Under the new scheme would i pay one fee to go wherever on that road or would i have to pay per mile?

I would rather they scrapped the road tax and put it all on petrol TBH.

This will start with  road tax but them spread into speed control and a lot of other things. TBH I doubt if they could manage it without a huge overspend.

i cant see a problem with the current system, and increasing fuel cost just isnt fair, its already hugely taxed compared to other countries and lorry drivers will be hit hard if the tax is increased

Big lorries cause a disproportionately high amount of road wear anyway so they should pay more. They also have the biggest opportunity for fuel economy.

good god.. they are struggling enough as it is

if it gets any more expensive theyll all go under and well be stuck with the foreigners

I dont know how many people have noticed but we as a country are getting screwed as its so freaking expensive over here and everyones pulling out to go abroad where its cheap

Quote from: SeriousThey also have the biggest opportunity for fuel economy.

I cant see where your coming from here, wont get many MPG with the 11L turbo diesel lumps dragging heavy good up and down a less than flat country

Quote from: SeriousBig lorries cause a disproportionately high amount of road wear anyway so they should pay more. They also have the biggest opportunity for fuel economy.

how is it disproportionate? a 48t tracter & trainler carry over 60 times more than a car. to carry the same amount in cars it would equal  80+ litre of engines and 120t+ in weight on the roads, pluss one hell of a wage bill, things like toilet roll would increase by about 10 time in price.