[jambutty]

Back in the fifties public transport was frequent, cheap, on time and well used Margaret. The driver drove the bus/tram and the conductor collected the fares and kept order on the bus. As people bought cars the bus passengers lessened until it became uneconomic to run that sort of service.

In Blackburn at peak times there was a bus every 6 minutes from the town centre to an outlying district like Shadsworth Estate or Preston New Road and if there were a large queue for one particular bus route in the town centre the Inspector would put on an extra bus. Off peak there was a bus every 12 minutes. Buses from town to adjoining town were every 15 minutes and Ribble buses catered for longer journeys.

Higher earners pay more tax, why can't those who drive more pay more?

People already pay by the mile garinda – its called the tax and VAT on petrol/diesel. The further you travel the more fuel you will use ergo pay more tax.

The technology is here today to run cars on renewable bio-fuels and some people do so already much to the chagrin of this government. We pay farmers not to grow foodstuff so why can’t they grow crops that provide the bio-fuel instead?

Sorry I forgot the extremely powerful oil lobby is preventing it from happening because it might decimate the industry. The production of petrol and diesel is only a small part of the industry and lubricating oil will always be needed to lubricate machines plus the other thousand and one uses that crude oil produces.