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Originally Posted by punyXpress
Possibly MORE bikes cos folks are already sick and tired of the excessively sanitised nanny state we now inhabit
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You can bet all electric cars will be fitted with technology to enable 'big brother' to check where the vehicle is and how fast it is going - also to enable automatic payment of 'road pricing' charges (which will be introduced for sure because fuel duty is pretty hard to collect if people charging from home supply, and government will need to replace the revenue). In article below it suggests that because of electric vehicles VAT on energy may rise from present 5% to 20%, this means that because some people have electric vehicles we will all pay 15% more for our power, that is on top of the £150 pa increase government is proposing to bring in to fund unreliable 'renewables' LOL
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-vat-fuel-duty
Tracking and road pricing will probably come in for all vehicles before 2040 anyway because governments do not like losing money streams and have proven themselves able to waste every penny they get, and to divert revenue collected from one source to pay for stuff not remotely connected to it (like VED and fuel tax not being used to repair our roads).