Chris Croughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You want to compare it with another regressive and useless tax? Since > when did road tax put any noticable number of people off buying 4x4 > guzzlers? All it does is penalise people who use their putatively > less-efficient cars in a more efficient manner.
It seems so-called green taxes may be useless in changing buying habits. Point of information: the different levels of road tax/vehicle excise duty/road fund licence pricing are having no effect on Europe yet: "CO_2 emission rates from *new cars* are down by just 0.2 percent on last year" [p73, The Observer Magazine, 16 September 2007]. Or would it change if a green tax was payable on purchase price, clearly labelled? Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
