As we go forward, I suspect the government will deploy more and more stealth taxes and disincentives to make combustion engine cars untenable and more and more expensive to run. We'll have to get used to it I suppose....
Congestion zones, clean air zones, parking charges, encouraging local authorities to levy more fixed penalties, cost of fuel, road tax..... so many ways they can squeeze the motorist.
You are of course correct, but it is the poor who suffer and lose liberty as usual, losing the ability to have the freedom of a vehicle and become prisoners in the home, ordering everything for delivery.
Public transport charges will rise as less vehicles generate income, taxes on electricity will rise as the massive income from fuel duty decreases, that money has to be replaced somehow, more so with current debt levels.
Sooner or later there has to be some fight back, my Son, friend and I have decided to sell the new cars and snap up as many of these perfectly good vehicles for ourselves and others who need them, it does not make sense running expensive new cars when there are perfectly good ones that meet standards we can buy through work for 250 quid a pop and make a few quid finding people who need them.
How green can it be to scrap perfectly good vehicles and send kids down mines to supply batteries for new ones while every other industry is going re use or re cycle?
Most of the German, Japanese or Korean diesels go to Europe or Africa anyway, our little Island is going to make little difference, we just comply.
