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Does this so called green tax annoy you? They should make green options cheaper not tax us more!? I think uts a stealth tax. If you live in Kensington anf have a 4l 4×4 a higher yax rate isn’t going to bother yo because you can probably afford it however, if you live in the country and have a 4×4 and are just about scraping a living and use it for what its intended its going to make a real difference. I can tell you when I was stuck in the snow last year 4 10 hours I was very pleased to see a landrover coming to save me! It would mean only rich people could afford to go on holiday or run cars and normal people will suffer as usual. If they were serious about climate change I think that they should seriously increase the grants available for solar / wind power to encourage take up as the costs are prohibative for most and give grants for "green" cars. What do you think, is it just a stealth tax?
Foundryman:
The idea behind the green tax is just that, to fund research into "green" technology. The problems arise with people who use the vehicles for their intended purpose as opposed to recreation. Now, 4×4’s are used by most people for recreation, even those in the "country" An argument can be made, although a thin one, that in the winter a 4×4 is essential, however, if you are truly in the country, most areas will have tractors that can provide the same service. The difference is this… a tractor is used only sporadically, whereas that land rover is probably used every day. The green tax will eventually go away because more efficient engines, more environmentally safe vehicles will come about because of the tax. If we do not institute taxes to spur these technologies, they will take much longer to come into their own. eventually we will pay, whether it is in higher gas prices because we are competing with more and more nations for the same resource, or in health and medical costs, due to the pollution of air and water, or in global catastrophe, due to the ever thickening CO2 blanket we are forming. References :
Steve J:
I am a strong environmentalist but I think that ‘green taxes’ are not the way forward (at least not as they are being proposed by all three main parties now). The energy wasteful behaviour in this country does indeed need to change, but you will get more results with incentives than you will with the ‘big stick’ of taxation.
If you are going to tax people to force them to change their behaviour then you they need a viable choice first - otherwise you are simply making people poorer and more resentful.
Before you start taxing fuel to prevent people from using their cars so much you need to invest heavily in a cheap, reliable, integrated public transport system - we currently have one of the worst systems in Western Europe. The fuel tax protests in 2000 were proof that this country will not yet tolerate high fuel taxes across the board - it simply makes the poor and isolated rural commmunities worse off.
In my nearest town about 1000 new houses have been built in the last five years. Aside from the regulation loft insulation, not one thought has been put towards alternative domestic energy sources. Every single one of those houses could have been wired up from the start to take an alternative energy source and every single one could have had solar panels. The costs of doing so during building would have been negligible compared to the profits on new houses in SE England. This all could easily have been enforced by planning regulations.
I think the reality is that yet another tax is too easy to implement. What we need in this country is politicians with guts and a long term vision to implement real changes in public transport and domestic energy conservation/generation. Green taxes should be reserved for big polluting industries who do have the choice to change their ways.
These proposals will all backfire badly and do more harm than good to the green cause. References :
liveinlondon100:
good topic bad question- they ARE making green options cheaper by raising taxes on non-green modes.
the thing that pisses me off is that the money raised will just go into plugging Browns finance holes made by mispending our billions when the going was good. References :
evilc:
every time i watch the telly all i ever get is ‘Global warming’ etc.
It is total bullshit.
No other country give a shit !!
The Gov and BBC all conspired years ago during their hippy smoking university parties, while we the workers had to work to pay for them to conspire against us.
If you want to promote green issue’s go and live on a mountain and become self sufficient.
Do not ask me to pay for you minority liberal establishment views. References :
Does this so called green tax annoy you? They should make green options cheaper not tax us more!?
I think uts a stealth tax. If you live in Kensington anf have a 4l 4×4 a higher yax rate isn’t going to bother yo because you can probably afford it however, if you live in the country and have a 4×4 and are just about scraping a living and use it for what its intended its going to make a real difference. I can tell you when I was stuck in the snow last year 4 10 hours I was very pleased to see a landrover coming to save me! It would mean only rich people could afford to go on holiday or run cars and normal people will suffer as usual. If they were serious about climate change I think that they should seriously increase the grants available for solar / wind power to encourage take up as the costs are prohibative for most and give grants for "green" cars. What do you think, is it just a stealth tax?
The idea behind the green tax is just that, to fund research into "green" technology. The problems arise with people who use the vehicles for their intended purpose as opposed to recreation. Now, 4×4’s are used by most people for recreation, even those in the "country" An argument can be made, although a thin one, that in the winter a 4×4 is essential, however, if you are truly in the country, most areas will have tractors that can provide the same service. The difference is this… a tractor is used only sporadically, whereas that land rover is probably used every day. The green tax will eventually go away because more efficient engines, more environmentally safe vehicles will come about because of the tax. If we do not institute taxes to spur these technologies, they will take much longer to come into their own. eventually we will pay, whether it is in higher gas prices because we are competing with more and more nations for the same resource, or in health and medical costs, due to the pollution of air and water, or in global catastrophe, due to the ever thickening CO2 blanket we are forming.
References :
I am a strong environmentalist but I think that ‘green taxes’ are not the way forward (at least not as they are being proposed by all three main parties now). The energy wasteful behaviour in this country does indeed need to change, but you will get more results with incentives than you will with the ‘big stick’ of taxation.
If you are going to tax people to force them to change their behaviour then you they need a viable choice first - otherwise you are simply making people poorer and more resentful.
Before you start taxing fuel to prevent people from using their cars so much you need to invest heavily in a cheap, reliable, integrated public transport system - we currently have one of the worst systems in Western Europe. The fuel tax protests in 2000 were proof that this country will not yet tolerate high fuel taxes across the board - it simply makes the poor and isolated rural commmunities worse off.
In my nearest town about 1000 new houses have been built in the last five years. Aside from the regulation loft insulation, not one thought has been put towards alternative domestic energy sources. Every single one of those houses could have been wired up from the start to take an alternative energy source and every single one could have had solar panels. The costs of doing so during building would have been negligible compared to the profits on new houses in SE England. This all could easily have been enforced by planning regulations.
I think the reality is that yet another tax is too easy to implement. What we need in this country is politicians with guts and a long term vision to implement real changes in public transport and domestic energy conservation/generation. Green taxes should be reserved for big polluting industries who do have the choice to change their ways.
These proposals will all backfire badly and do more harm than good to the green cause.
References :
good topic bad question- they ARE making green options cheaper by raising taxes on non-green modes.
the thing that pisses me off is that the money raised will just go into plugging Browns finance holes made by mispending our billions when the going was good.
References :
every time i watch the telly all i ever get is ‘Global warming’ etc.
It is total bullshit.
No other country give a shit !!
The Gov and BBC all conspired years ago during their hippy smoking university parties, while we the workers had to work to pay for them to conspire against us.
If you want to promote green issue’s go and live on a mountain and become self sufficient.
Do not ask me to pay for you minority liberal establishment views.
References :