Pay per mile and removal of fuel duty

[Tony]

With electric cars only being the 2030 ambition, this was perhaps inevitable.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8951969/Rishi-Sunak-considers-plan-charge-motorists-mile-drive-Britains-roads.html

(Sorry for the DM link, seems to be the only rag covering this at the moment)

[dgs]

All well and good as long as he lets us bio and veg people have our discount in line with our reduction of CO2 emissions of 76.4%

[neisel]

Are our cars compliant with any of the Euro 4,5,6 standards?

Bloke who does my MOT thought his exhaust testing machine was on the blink the first time he MOTd my car running on BD. TBH I don't know how that translates to the Euro standards thing, or even if they are measuring the same things.

[Mr Tickle]

It doesn't say it in that scummy rag (feel dirty for just reading it) but i assume that if a charge per mile was inrtrduced (and I would think we are a few years off it yet) then it would only be for electric vehicles as the duty and vat would still be being collected for fossil fueled cars? (and plant fueled  )

I think by the time they make this policy most of us will have given up making fuel anyways.

And on a side note, I will be buying a noisy v8 petrol to put away for sunny drives and to upset the snowflakes in 20 years time!

[Tony]

And on a side note, I will be buying a noisy v8 petrol to put away for sunny drives and to upset the snowflakes in 20 years time!

I was also thinking that for the patient there would be value in preserving some of the more interesting ICE powered vehicles of our era...

[nigelb]

What do you have in mind Tony?