Saturday, 17 March 2007

Car Engine Size

The petition is entitled reatly reduce road tax on bigger engine and the explanatory notes say
"surely road tax is in place to pay for fixing/replacing roads? then how come 6 months tax for me costs £100, where an almost identical car with a 1.6 engine costs much less, even though the damage caused would be the same? this extra money doesn't even appear to be used for carbon exchange projects, but on other ways to tax us using technology (pay per mile, speed cameras, congestion charges etc)"

Actually, since a larger-engined car is heavier than an otherwise-identical car with a smaller engine, I imagine they cause more road damage ...

1 comment:

uber said...

surely road tax is in place to pay for fixing/replacing roads - I think it's probably time for a petition for the National Curriculum to include an explanation of hypothecated taxation for dullards who consider everything to be a personal attack on them individually.