Gohoff,
Wow, -:) no wonder it is newsworthy. I would not really call the bridge a
highway in Sweden, but I did pay the bridge a few times. You are cheating
a little bit here.
I knew about the discussions about congestion tariffs, but never thought
that it already was approved. It was a lot of hard work to achieve
congestions,
so Stockholm could get on the list of busy Capitals and motivate that the
politicians could make it an issue. LOL
Many years ago I was selling and working with simulation software in
Sweden and it must have been a work of art to create so many problems
that Stockholm have. Even if they did not reach the status of London and
Paris, it was an optimum of what they could achieve to reach the status
of a Country Capital. That was a challenge for linear programming, because
it was impossible to create so much problems with manual methods.
Parking in Linkšping and Norrkšping has always been free, if you only
accept to walk 500m, Maybe it is more like 1 km, so you get out on
the country side. A little bit more for Uppsala. LOL
Come and visit me in Spain and we will find a good temporary solution
for the drinking problem, without filtering the fuel. Sweden is one of the
countries in the world, with the highest Ethanol use. It is also quite a
large part of the population, who are experts on Ethanol production. LOL
Hakan
At 10:25 AM 5/8/2005, you wrote:
Hakan wrote:
> Just a bit curious, since when and where did they start with highway tolls
> in Sweden? Free city parking and special tax breaks, I did not read about
> any revolutions in Sweden. LOL
Well, there is the bridge over to Denmark paid for by taxes with a one way
toll higher than a Ryan air ticket from Sweden to most European
destinations.
Ethanol cars and the Prius will be exempt to the congestion tariffs which
have now been finally approved for Stockholm.
In Linkšping and Norrkšping the above vehicles also park free - not sure
about other places but I seem to remember Uppsala too.
These vehicles when used as combined company/private or company subsidised
cars give a better tax break for the individuals using them.
All of the above doesn't help much though. Me, I can't afford the bridge or
Ryan, can't afford a new or different car, don't live anywhere near a place
I can't usually park for free, don't have a company so can't cheat on taxes
and I still have 60 km's round trip to my nearest shop which costs 68 skr
(app $10 US) every time at today's diesel prices (10 km litre), and a 75 cl
bottle of Vodka still costs 220 skr (app $32 US) so I can't drown my sorrows
either ;-(
Even though ethanol is cheaper at the pump the fuel saving cost is
negligible as consumption is higher. Most of the above at
>http://svt.se/plus<
click 'se plus' and watch last weeks video.
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