Petition for the new Road tax... Sign up here..!!!

I have just signed and hopefully it will make a difference,With Hard times comming the last thing I need is to be ripped off even more by this goverment. They can dress it up how they like,the so called Green issue......................Dont get me wrong I,m all for saving the environment but a little common sence is needed sometimes........

Scrap the new Car Tax

 

Is it true they are actually going to backdate it to 2001?

 

No Claire, when they say it`s retrospective, they mean it will affect cars REGISTERED from 2001. Rather than from 2010, when changes come in. Needless to say, I`ve signed.:thumb:

 

Ill sighn it but they wont take any notice, the only time a goverment listens is in the months leading up to an election.

 

[serious rant]
I'm all in favour of heavily taxing gas guzzlers; how many people driving big 4x4s/Chelsea tractors could actually realistically justify them. For example what possible justification is there for a Porsche Cayenne turbo on british roads, top speed 176MPH, bluddy ridiculous vehicle. Same goes for similar BMW, Merc and Audi offerings, slap a £2000 per month road tax on them unless they can show a fully justifiable need. Not because it's the latest "must have", "the Jones have one", "it matches me handbag"

Many seem to just do a daily school run (quarter mile each way?) and the only time they go off road is when they park on the pavement. The closer you live to the school and the fewer children you have the bigger the car seems to be the ruling criterion. Living near a school we see them every day driving round and round the block looking for somewhere to park, (preferrably across someones driveway) they must travel twice the distance from home to school just trying to find a parking slot.

Don't allow anybody to sell on a new car until they've had it 5 years or done say 100,000 miles whichever comes first.

[/serious rant]

Cheers, grumpy old f@rt. Looking for a deep bomb proof shelter.

 

Signed it Marley:thumb: Mr Kandy was saying that he heard that this country sells it's Gas to foreign countries because we have no storage facilities and then when we want it back we have to buy it back off of them.How mad is that

Not sure though if he has got his facts right so would love to hear from anyone else who might know a bit more:thumb:

 

Just had my activation email come through and my name has just gone onto the list:thumb:

 

I've only got a mondeo and my latest tax bill which has just come in is £400 for twelve months.
God knows what it will be next year.

This is the first time I can remember road tax being more expensive than insurance.

 

Whether or not the policy is correct, I feel it is a step in the right direction. I agree entirely with Mike.

Mondeo....Ok, nice vehicle...could you not drive something smaller and more efficient? Lets face it....the car is on its way out as we know it. Maybe not in my lifetime, but it is destined for the great scrapyard in the sky....so we all better get used to the fact.:thumb:

 

We have a 53 reg Mazda 2 diesel £35 per year and an X reg Mazda Demio 1.5, £115 per year. The Demio will probably have to go, now Joyce has retired we only need one car, last year only did about 400 miles in the Demio, 600 the previous. Probably flog it in September when the Tax runs out. Before that I had a 1962 Ford Classic, £0 tax, trouble is after I turned 70 it was no longer fun crawling underneath it.

 

Hi Shiney.Thanks for your detailed explanation.I am not sure where Mr Kandy heard this from it was just something he was talking about the other week with his sister.We don't buy national newspapers becuase they are always filled with rubbish and are only good for my guneia pig cage or composting:D

I have just asked him as he came into the room and he said it was on the Telly,say no more.If it was on the TV then it must be right:thumb::D

Mike if you only do that amount of miles I wouldn't have thought you would have needed a carI take it you either walk,bike of bus everywhere:thumb:

We have got a Nissan X Trail diesal and only got it because the torque for pulling our caravan with the mondeo wasn't good enough.We don't own one to keep up with anyone and after 16 years of pulling a trailer tent with a smaller car {Meastro} when we got the caravan had the mondeo.I know a lot of people hate caravans but when we had a dog and Mr Kandy was a smoker self catering cottages would take one or not the other or neither.We use a 4x4 as something we need not as a fashion statement.We are too old for that sort of thing and couldn't afford the prices that some of the youngsters in our village spend on them anyway:rolleyes:

Now I am off to pollute the countryside:D