anti road pricing petition

Becles

I don't know if it's true or not, but it's been posted all over the internet and I'm sick of hearing about it

Penny_Watcher

Not wishing to discourage anyone signing it (far from it!), but here's a quote from this morning.

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy. More details

Submitted by Peter Roberts – Deadline to sign up by: 20 February 2007 – Signatures: 806,713"

Hurrah :T

Optimist

Well its obviously working as there are currently 807,011 Signatures:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Ellie2758

littlescarlet wrote:

Hi

If you are ever in doubt about something like this you could try the following two websites

www.snopes.com/snopes.asp
www.urbanlegends.about.com/

Microsoft also have an extensive virus etc database.

there is also a good set of general rules to test a mail if you are unsure
1. If it urges you to pass it on, its probably a hoax
2. If it threatens dire consequences, its probaby a hoax
3. If you have heard it elsewhere and with different names, its probably an urban legend
4. If it has a beginning, middle and end, its probably an urban legend.
5. If it happened to a friend of a friend, not the person sending, its probably an urban legend
6.If it says something must happen in a certain amount of time, then its either selling you something or its a hoax

Sorry if that sounds preachy but I had to change my email address not so long ago cos I fell for one of these idiot mails and got inundated with Spam, so I'm in crusade mode!

Thanks, but how do you search for your particular "myth" in snopes? I put in "car tax" and was inundated with all sorts of irrelevant stuff.

Horlock

tarinilie wrote:

I think the media drives this paranoia in the so called Big Brother myth.

Does anyone really think there is an army of civil servants interested in knowing when and where you drive?

If you've got nothing to hide - who cares?

If they're going to do it for the right motives; reducing speed, catching wrong-un's with no car tax and insurance- I'm all for it?

i'm more worried about the 'cry foul' types - what have you got to hide?

Hey and while they're at it, why don't they install cctv cameras above our desks at work - I mean surely we don't have anything to hide do we!

I get the impression that hiding stuff and invasion of personal space are separate issues BUT i don't want people looking over my shoulder PERIOD

redux

Tinks! wrote:

Personally i am sick to the back teeth of the government passing new laws to get more money out of us and no one doing anything about it

As yet there is no published proposal to do this, so the protest may be a little premature.

If it were to be introduced, my objection would be that the overheads built in, including mobile phone and other provider companies' costs and profits, would probably mean it would cost three times as much as necessary, so keeping taxation on fuel instead would be rather more efficient in collection terms.

But it has been posted on here to the level of spam, especially in another board a couple of days ago when four people in a single day posted threads that began with I don't know if you've noticed or heard ...

littlescarlet

Hi Ellie
Yes unfortunately sometimes it takes a wee while.
Try a much more specific search like 'uk car tax petition'
Or you can try to find other sites - if you put in the words 'urban myth' or 'hoax' or similar you can build up quite a store of useful sites. There is also a good one for medical stuff called Quackwatch - but I'd give it a miss if you are into alternative therapies its not very understanding about mystical stuff.

Optimist

Interesting to note that there are nearly a million (996,934) people signed this petition. Of course the government has said that they will take no notice. Makes one wonder why they put this petition facility on the government website really!

nelly_2

yes car tax is a hoax

moggins

Whether it's a hoax or not is irrelevant, what is more scary is how many people have jumped on the bandwagon without being aware of all the facts and figures.

Seems like we are turning into a nation of sheep again