Flog that Chelsea Tractor now!

[Taf]

The government has denied claims it concealed the full extent of changes in car tax set out in this year's Budget.

..............did not say explicitly owners of the most polluting cars registered after March 2001 would have to pay more than £400 in tax from next year.

Under the new road tax system, which will come into effect next year, there will be 13 bands ranging from A to M. Vehicles will be classed based on carbon emissions.

The top band - band M - will be for those vehicles which emit more than 255g of carbon dioxide per kilometre (CO2/km) driven. They will pay £440 in tax.

The second-highest band - Band L - is for cars emitting between 226g and 255g of CO2/km. They will pay £415.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7375638.stm

The Rates Table: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7293011.stm

[Spite]

  If you can afford to run a big-engined motor, then you can afford the tax for it.  of course, the ethics of the tax, are very questionable.  Whilst I have no doubt that global warming is taking place, I think hitting the private citizen hard is wrong, when you consider how much pollution big business throws into the air. Indeed, if we all reduced our carbon footprints to zero, tomorrow, it wouldn't make a jot of difference, because governments and corporations are the biggest polluters ever.

[Taf]

Yup, all the taxes up to now have just dropped polution by 1%... and most of that drop is apparently due to low-energy ligtbulbs not vehicles or industry

[El]

I once heard a debate on the radio about global warming and while they admitted it was true and we are storing up trouble ...........it also said that if those same scaremongerers were about in the middle ages, then we would all still be living in caves and there would have never been such a thing as the industrial revolution.

[Spite]

I once heard a debate on the radio about global warming and while they admitted it was true and we are storing up trouble ...........it also said that if those same scaremongerers were about in the middle ages, then we would all still be living in caves and there would have never been such a thing as the industrial revolution.

  I don't think it's scaremongering at all, but I do think all the blame has been shifted to us.  Why should we be cold, and live in gloomy homes, when heads of corporations think nothing of taking helicopters for short trips?

[El]

It might not be scaremongering but it sometimes reminds me of that scotsman in dad`s army .y`know the one that just kept saying
It`ll all doom and gloom , it will all end in tears 
I ride a bike, I recycle , I turn off me lights, I holiday in this country and yet they still keep going on about it ...........Piers Morgan (ooh I can`t stand him) was on the tele the other day saying that he is starting like a talent contest for school kids who come up with the best recycling ideas and them openly admitted that he flies to America weekly  Now, that gets on me nerves 

[Spite]

It`ll all doom and gloom , it will all end in tears 

  It will.  It's unavoidable, now.

Piers Morgan (ooh I can`t stand him) was on the tele the other day saying that he is starting like a talent contest for school kids who come up with the best recycling ideas and them openly admitted that he flies to America weekly  Now, that gets on me nerves 

  But it's worth it to get him out of the country for a while.  America's welcome to him.