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Originally Posted by Neil
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.
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Which would be really good if CO2 emitted driving a car was anything near to a major polluter. over 80% of teh emissions of a car are from its manufacture and decomission. Actually encouraging people to keep their old cars would be a greener policy. Then there is the fact that even the total output of vehicles pales into insignificance when you count in things like bovine wind and industry itself. Even if teh whole of Europe didn't emit a single molecule of CO2 from now on, China alone would fill teh gap in less than 18 months.
Extra tax on vehicles is nothing to do with green issues whatsoever and teh goverment know it. The sooner they admit it the more respect people will have for them