Ianh wrote:

Its rather ironic that a labour mayor in London, in fact socialist mayors of cities all over the UK and other countries, are implementing systems that effectively clear the roads of poorer people so richer people can use them unfettered by the hoi polloi.
To add insult to injury the poorer motorists still have to contribute to the upkeep of the roads (via vehicle tax) that they can no longer afford to use.

The whole ULEZ scheme is a total farce, virtually every scientist in the world agrees that wind direction plays a massive part in emissions. For instance, London has a South-Westerly wind for about 2/3rds of the year with an average wind speed of about 5mph. So after each rush hour, the majority of the vehicle emissions ends up in Essex/Herts within a few hours, with central London being fed with clean air (lower emissions) from Surrey/Hants.

If the ULEZ scheme is actually about emissions, then London should pay Essex/Herts counties, as all the London crap emissions end up there most of the year. The same goes for every city with similar schemes, wind direction is never taken into account. Jumped ship to reliability - Mitsubishi L200
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spudfan wrote:

I get annoyed when I hear governments putting up various motoring taxes to force us to go "green". They want us to buy electric cars and pay money on top of road tax to drive in to cities. This is unfair.
If the motoring population decided en masse to buy electric cars there are not enough electric cars to supply the demand. I think the extra "green" taxes should not be applied until there are enough electric cars for everyone to change over to. We all paid taxes on our cars when we bought them and the government was glad to take the taxes. There is no point in demonising motorist but let us go on as we are until there is suffient supply of alternative modes of transport to take over.
If 50% of the motoring population went electric tomorrow (assuming the vehicles were there to purchase with the appropriate infrastructure) think of the revenue that would be lost over night and the on going loss in fuel duty. Governments know this is not possible so they pay lip service to the green ideology and continue to fleece the ordinary motorist.