Are we ready to protest petrol price increases?

pinkshoes

albertross wrote: »

Price per mile is already linked to the efficiency of car engines, as is road tax.

Yeah, but that's utterly naff and doesn't represent how often you use the car!

Scrap road tax and price petrol by car efficiency!

albertross_2

It seems inextricably linked to how much you use the car to me, if your car is more efficient, you use less petrol.

Scrapping road tax I'm all in favour of, it is a unnecessary complication in everyones lives (apart from the people who don't pay it).

Having different charging systems at petrol stations would undo all that, and re-complicate everything.

stugib

pinkshoes wrote: »

Yeah, but that's utterly naff and doesn't represent how often you use the car!

It does because you have to fill up more often if you have a less efficient car, costing you more, and influencing your decision on how much to use it. albertross is correct that a flat rate does already penalise less efficient cars.

pinkshoes wrote: »

Scrap road tax and price petrol by car efficiency!

As you admitted, almost impossible to administer cost-effectively.

Wig

The protest only worked before because the HGV drivers refused to drive out the refineries. In reality their bosses were secretly sympathetic. There's no way it would happen again.

People have the right to protest, they do not have the right to block the highway, and the police would remove you if you did block the highway. The police did not have to remove anyone last time because no one was blocking the highway, which is why it was so bizarre that the HGV drivers refused to leave the refineries.

If the drivers refused again they could find themselves being sacked.

darich

albertross wrote: »

We all have the vote don't we. The country keeps voting for higher taxes, so that's what we get.

I've got a vote and don't ever remember seeing a paper where i could choose lower or higher taxes.

albertross_2

That would be the choice between Labour and the Conservatives.

grade15

what do you mean, what is the purpose of blockaid.. i can say..can't get into work..(sleep in or watch the daily news on the tv) and hope millions can't .. cost business billions.. government hasn't to do something then!!!

stugib

grade15 wrote: »

what do you mean, what is the purpose of blockaid.. i can say..can't get into work..(sleep in or watch the daily news on the tv) and hope millions can't ..

As I discovered last time, it's not your employers problem how you get to work. Hope you've got a sympathetic employer because they'd be under no obligation to pay you if you didn't turn up. You'd likely have to use annual leave.

grade15 wrote: »

cost business billions.. government hasn't to do something then!!!

Yes, probably firefighting a recession for the next few years and repairing the damage to our reputation internationally :rolleyes:

grade15

so one way to fix this problem.. reduce petrol duties and problem sorted!!

dinglebert

grade15 wrote: »

so one way to fix this problem.. reduce petrol duties and problem sorted!!

No problem only moved. In order to ensure same amount of money coming into the treasury then the amount lost by reduce petrol duty would have to be moved onto something else.