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Originally Posted by Greg Pope
I'm also opposed to the proposed VED changes and I met with the Chancellor only last week to discuss both these issues.
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I agree with you on that point.
I think re banding vehicles already on the road with not only devalue cars bought by people before the re banding but may also make it hard for the owners of certain cars to pay the new amounts.
I can fully understand and agree with a proposal to re band all vehicles first registered from say 2010. Retrospective changes are not right and not fair.
I would also agree to a maximum co2 output of vehicles as well. I believe this would force manufacturers to reduce the co2 output of vehicles. Just using road taxation will have no effect. If you can afford to buy a £40,000 4x4 you can afford to spend the £400 ish pounds on road tax. Even if it was £1000 for the highest band I still don't think it would have any effect on reducing the sale of top band vehicles.
Cap co2 emmissions at something like 200g or maybe limits for each vehicle type, as in small hatch, family sized and 4x4. This way you would remove the biggest poluters from the road.
That unless you don't want to upset the car manufacturers, don't want to reduce road tax, dont want to upset voters and are only pretending to be enviromentally friendly.