Rumours suggest tomorrow’s budget will see fuel prices increase by 2p per litre – although the price raise is expected to be delayed until later in the year.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is also believed to be considering a £1,000 tax charge on the most polluting cars that drivers will have to pay in the first year of ownership.
What do you expect from the 2008 budget?
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good old labour ,
tax the motorist as usual
put a meter on our head for breathing
you might as well.
ask the americans to buy a small
car to help with the emissions,
they will laugh at you as usual
its a story to rape the good people of Britain
as usual.
dave if spot on it sould be done on how many miles you drive as i pay band g which is now £400 a year but in the two years i have owned the car i have driven 4000 miles the goverment could do this but it would make less money and they know it as we are all mugs and have to pay it and thats what they are doing its not about co’2 thats just a nice little cover up for them to use to take us to make money.
This budget will have little effect on fighting climate change and is yet another LAbour revenue raising exercise. I just wish they would stop lying about it. I use my car as little as possible, recycle everything possible and don ‘t fly. Result After a life time of hardwork, what is left of mys savings is gradually being taken from me. At the current rate of price/Tax increases and the current rate of increase of my pension income, I expect to be insolvent in, at most, three years. LAbour have lived fully up to my expectations of them They have never been any different since the 1940′s yet people still vote for them, the fools.
Thats how you press the self distruct button. All labour mp’s are aware of this and Brown and the labour party know they won’t be in power for much longer. This is the final nail in labours coffin.
We should revolt big time. We have highest fuel prices in the world, the worst congestion charging scheme possible, now exorbitant road tax and the promise of road pricing so ordinary people will not be able to drive anywhere.
Leave now- in france there is NO Road Tax, NO congestion charging and diesel is 90p a litre.
I,m a disabled person who has to have a car as i can’t use public transport and i,m sick to death of the goverment taxing petrol as a LUXURY ITEM !! who dosen’t use some form of petrol !! or petrolium based product cars must be made greener it,s the car producers WHO CAN DO THIS the goverment should pressure them NOT US !!!
I am disgusted with the fuel rise, its not fair when i do short journeys round town. Bring them back down to 99p per litre.
The budget has been announced – read the news for car owners and have your say.
If they are going to start charging extra tax on gaz guzzlers and (in the near future I am positive) slap the other 2p duty on fuel to drive up the price of owning and running a car, then are they also going to offer those who car share a tax rebate, or possibly subsidise the massive cost of commuting by rail or bus. A 3 mile/5-10 min journey by bus from my house to the centre of town costs £2.70 return (which will also be driven up by the increasing costs) or I can do it by car and park for free which works out, if I do the entire journey in first gear, at £1.00, with others in the car as I tend to do it even less…
So which should option should I select?
Only 15% of our road taxes etc gets reinvested back into our roads even though 90%+ of the population use the road. 30% is funnelled into the rail network which less than 10% of the population use.
As for higher taxes on large polluters I’m all for it but there should be some levey on large vehicles. The roads are bad enough already without the mums on the school run in what seems like armored 4×4′s which are roads lets face it aren’t really designed to accomodate.
There needs to be a balance in fair reinvestment and imporvements in our road network and an incentive or state run scheme to get kids to school taking these school run convoys off the roads.
During the holidays when the kids are off and the school run isn’t my commute down the m6 seems 50% less busy. The solution seems simple to me.