Road Tax Petition

[Niall]

No ridiculous. Needs to just be added to fuel duty.

No offence mate but that's bollocks. Why should I pay more road tax because I drive an old car that isn't good on fuel?

Well i suppose it depends who you talk to. Some people insist its all based on emissions. Personally i don't think it is. Because we are part of the lovely EU, we get fined for emissions levels in this country over X amount so the government needs to cut down on polluting cars on the road. Equally, it needs to keep the car business going and its a pretty fair assumption to make that when buying new, the bigger polluting cars are more expensive than the little eco boxes. So how do you have a fair balance of emissions and keeping the car industry afloat? Base tax on emissions. That way, people who can't afford to pay the tax on these big V8s buy eco boxes. Those who can afford to and don't give a toss can go and buy their big engined cars and pay more tax. I look at it as basically a rich tax!