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Originally Posted by Mr K
Bung all the tax on fuel?
Not sure how they'd charge for electric vehicles.
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I think that’s Pierre’s point.
It’s insincere of Government to pretend the system incentivises “greener” motoring if in the event everyone did, in the long run, it this leaves a funding shortfall that inevitably comes back to “green” motorists to pay.
A pay as you go system would be interesting, and could vary from relying on “honesty”/MOT figures (I know these don’t apply to brand new cars for a period), to wildly complex using “big brother” GPS/Bluetooth technologies.
I’m not endorsing the latter but in theory you could allocate every driver an “essential” mileage to cover “necessary” journeys with a sliding scale for journeys over and above (e.g. based on alternative options). GPS data covering habitual journeys could be used to confirm that “essential” journeys specific to a driver are habitually undertaken in line with the rationale for them. I’d imagine there’d be outrage but I was just thinking through the tech in this instance.