Charge by the mile?
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Local Hero
Charge by the mile?
I think the basic idea is good but i think it would be a massive and costly nighmare to employ.
I'm all for paying more if you drive more and less if less. Can't help thinking that in the end we'd all be paying more overall
Any comments…?
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Local Hero
I think it's another scam to make us think we're getting a 'better' deal when really it will cost us more..
Also, how are they going to keep track of our milage? black box? they'd also use it for checking all sorts of other things!
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Local Hero
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Old Timer
….and they will NEVER abolish Road Tax - surely it is the system whereby they ensure that there are no uninsured, non mot'd cars on the roads……oh, sorry…..
………by the time they get this up and running (let alone running properly) I'll have long given up driving!
Now you have upset me for the weekend……
Owning a Mk1 cabby is a vertical learning curve…
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1999 (Nov) Passat S Saloon 1.9 TDI (AFN) - TUG 1 (Remap by CCC ( - **** …..change pants !!) with cruise control
2000 (Mar) Passat Sport Estate 1.9 TDI (ATJ) 5 speed automatic with Tiptronic - TUG 2 (Remap and cruise control by CCC)
1989 Mk1 Clipper 1.8 automatic - Sadly now up for sale - medical issues dictate)
1999 (Nov) Passat S Saloon 1.9 TDI (AFN) - TUG 1 (Remap by CCC ( - **** …..change pants !!) with cruise control
2000 (Mar) Passat Sport Estate 1.9 TDI (ATJ) 5 speed automatic with Tiptronic - TUG 2 (Remap and cruise control by CCC)
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Old Timer
The idea of introducing tolls on roads is nothing more than another stealth tax.
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Old Timer
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Old Timer
Nice idea, but completely and totally un-workable in my opinion.
If you think about it though it would be maybe slightly fairer on people like me who run two cars, as I wouldn't be paying the full road tax on both cars every year, only paying for what I used the cars for which would be the same regardless of what car i took. therefore if I didn't use the golf for six months over winter say, I wouldn't have a tax disc sitting there effectively costing me money.
I wish someone would also come up with a fexible insurance policy which covered both cars as long as only one was being driven at one time, I think there's a market for that! (i know completely un-related!)
Mike.
1983 White cabriolet GTi
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Old Timer
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Old Timer
Road tax put on fuel best option if they were going to do it I would have thought. More miles = more fuel = more tax. Also encourages use of more fuel efficient cars to keep the greenies happy. No 'black boxes' needed and fairer on those who have more than one car (ie, don't have tax for 12mths but only use it every other weekend !)
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Local Hero
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Local Hero
Roads are only really bad at certain times of the day in certain locations. Rates would have to be pretty cheap in the highlands at 2am on a Sunday morning
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Settling In
Naff off labour and next time tell us these type of 'bright ideas' before the election not a month after re-election.
rrrrr . And relax
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Life Member
I do about 25,000 miles a year.
It costs me ?50 to fill up my Audi now (?40 3 years ago!) which lasts me about a week. So about ?200 a month, ?2400 a year.
?40 of this is fuel duty tax though. So without fuel tax it would cost me ?480 a year. At an average of 50p a mile I would have to add a further ?12500.
:evil:
I worked out that you have to do less than 6500 miles a year to be better off.
Oddly enough, good news for those of us keeping the Mk1 as a second car. The Mk1 will be cheaper to run under the new scheme.
Cheers,
Drew.
Once a Mk1 fan, always a Mk1 Fan...
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Newbie
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Local Hero
rotis23 said
I think drivers should be charged by the number of Golfs they have in their garden and by the number of unfinished car projects in their car port
…you mean the more Golfs you own, the less you pay?!
Andy
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2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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Local Hero
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crazyquiff said
Don't listen to that rotis23 - he's a MK1 Golf owner wannabe
He's jelous cos he doesn't have a garden in which to park any Golfs!!
Could squeeze one more in!!
Andy
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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