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So the feeble argument for taxing electric vehicles is that the government is losing fuel duty on combustion-engine cars. If that's true, why are cyclists not being taxed? After all, the more pushbikes on the road, the fewer powered forms of transport there are, ergo less tax duty. I'm surprised Rachel Reeves hasn't implemented a tax on people who wear the colour blue, or on those selfish people who have gardens? She could tax you by the square foot! 😔

P.S. I don't own an electric car.

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in reply to dick_turpin

I guess the argument is that any form of cars need the road maintenance for them; now bicycles are a bit less brutal to roads however you measure it (weight/wheel width/speed/etc)
in reply to penguin42

Road Tax stopped being used for maintaining roads in 1937. The money goes straight to the general government. Local councils are duty-bound for the upkeep of roads out of funds allocated to them from the government. This is why there are huge potholes everywhere.

Try arguing over parking, say, outside your house. The first thing they will say is: "I've got road tax, mate, that entitles me to park where I like." Ergo, he's paid to be on the road, not for the upkeep; therefore, imv, anyone who uses the road should pay to use it and don't get me started on people cycling on the pavements.

in reply to dick_turpin

Oh yeh people cycling on the pavement should suffer some horrible punishment; maybe getting assigned to the OBR for a month.
But even if you'd argue the road tax stuff isn't being used on roads, then the elecy car needs money spent on the grid.
in reply to penguin42

D'you know what's annoying? They've a chance to get it right. Proper infrastructure, billing and yes, tracking, but you just know they're going to make a pig's ear of it like the railways and the trams.
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