Re: [PEN-L] traffic control
On 6/5/05, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in > > London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road > > usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and > > location. England is good country to test drive this This might > > replace the petrol tax. < > > the petrol tax is needed to actively discourage the use of oil! it's > not just an indirect congestion tax. > -- > Jim Devine - Think positively; it's an *incentive* to walk, bike, skateboard etc. around cities..:-) -- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]
Re: [PEN-L] traffic control
> Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, > the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by > the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England > is good country to test drive this This might replace the petrol tax. < the petrol tax is needed to actively discourage the use of oil! it's not just an indirect congestion tax. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl M., paraphrasing Dante A.
[PEN-L] traffic control
Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England is good country to test drive this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4610755.stm This might replace the petrol tax. What is important for the wider social control of capitalist society is that it would enable some social control to limit the centralising effects of capitalism, and to mitigate the contradiction between town and country. It sounds possible, allowing for the glitches to be ironed out. Remember capital is not against social control. It is only against social control that is in the interests of working people. But if the principle of social control is established, it is the eve of the socialist revolution, provided the political consciousness rises. Chris Burford
