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21-02-07, 08:54 AM | #1 | |
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Road Pricing - The response
For those that didnt sign up to the E-petition heres the response from that tosser in 10 downing st
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21-02-07, 09:01 AM | #2 |
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My email from "Tone" arrived this morning.
Fair doos........he didn't have to reply, and he must have been up all night typing those 1.8m individual emails. Top chap. |
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Got mine..... The biggest area of concern for many folks is the stealth tax bit, IMHO. He says nothing about how this will be addressed, except to say 'It won't' - ohhhhhh I believe you Tony !
You watch, in 10 years time it will be here, we will still have the most expensive fuel in Europe and be paying road tax to. Probably be a parking tax to! Dirty theivin' robbin' ............ |
21-02-07, 09:20 AM | #5 |
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Expensive "hobby" those journeys to work. Huh? Well, maybe we all have to start riding and driving with no insurance, MOT, Road tax etc to compansate for the new charges? Plenty of $cum already does so who is going to be worst off? BTW will this apply to bikes as well as cars? And if they fit those little boxes in every vehicle in UK, surelly we should be able to get insurance discounts as it will work as a security device too (little GPS tracker?)
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Re: Road Pricing - The response
And then they know where you've been and how fast you are going. Whay instead speeding fines for those of us that like to indulge where and when its safe to.
Perhaps I'm being to cynical.
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Don't think so. The bottom line is that vehicles are a huge problem (as are many other things of course incl our own homes, pc's etc) both on the environment and regarding congestion. I signed the petition because I think there are better ways to tackle this. One issue I have is the lack of restriction on vehicle technology. Why do we make it so easy for gas guzzlers to be used etc - my old favourites the 4x4's!! That of course wouldn't necessarily solve congestion though but technolgy is there for powerful vehicles to have quite low Carbon emmisions and this is readily available now. I also signed a petition about use of bus lanes by bikes and also against car parking charges for bikes. These issues will make motorcycling more attractive through improved safety thus reduce congestion. I don't think we can be simply dimissive of this issue because we don't like Tony Blair and don't wish to shell out for a solution. |
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21-02-07, 10:59 AM | #10 |
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I could not find a response. So I looked in the deleted items folder. Yup my computer thinks the same of the response as me and garbaged it.
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