Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
I can’t believe anyone could think it wasn’t inevitable.If fuel tax is supposed to push people into public transport then it needs to be much higher.
Your last sentence is exactly what will happen.
I can’t believe anyone could think it wasn’t inevitable.If fuel tax is supposed to push people into public transport then it needs to be much higher.
Your last sentence is exactly what will happen.
why? Because governments would refuse to lose the money? Why can it not become cheaper?
Currently 38% per https://carbonintensity.org.uk/As for green, I understand circa 60% of electricity comes from fossil fuels.
Oh and the cost of a season ticket is now 8.5k. F**ckers.
Jesus wept. That’s after tax as well. It’ll get to the point where the only people who can afford to travel will be those on business expenses. Mind you, that will be the case for driving as well at this rate. I wonder when the HMRC mileage rates will be increased…
Because the use of personal vehicles always incurs externalities. EV users are being let off them for now as an incentive to switch, once the need to incentivise people to switch has abated, EVs will be taxed in much the same way as ICE vehicles.
Buying and running an EV may be less environmentally damaging than buying an ICE vehicle, but it's not environmentally friendly. Not moving around or moving around under your own steam is far less environmentally damaging than either.
I'm waiting for the lithium wars.
Particulates maybe, but only because the emission standards are becoming staggeringly tight on tailpipe particulates to the point where you pretty much can't meet them with a non-hybrid. With Euro IV diesel the aftertreatment for an engine cost as much as the engine itself, Euro VII is several orders of magnitude stricter. Oh, and let's not forget that brake dust levels are much less from cars with regenerative braking to the point that some pad formations are just not suitable.I've recently read that petrol engine effeiciency is such that the worst damage to the environment not comes not from the tailpipe but the compounds from the tyres turning into microdust/plastic in the air and brake dust!
Methane is a problem, but it is quite short-lived in the atmosphere, so it's a different problem to CO2 which, IIRC, persists for around a century, so emissions are cumulative.
The half-life of methane in the atmosphere is moot if billions of tonnes get released from the permafrost.
Mostly but exchange rate comes into it as well.The difference is tax.
Mostly but exchange rate comes into it as well.
People in the UK love paying lots of tax that's why they keep voting Tory.
Agree.Tax is not necessarily a problem if you get some value from it.
Tax is not necessarily a problem if you get some value from it.