There are hundreds, if not thousands, of petitions on the web site and it up
to the petitioners to publicise them, not HM Government. However, as the
chances of apetitionhaving an effect on government policy are probably
lower than that of winning a triple rollover jackpot on the lottery,
petitions really only exist to allow the people who sign them to think they
have done something.


While I have signed the petition, I somewhat perversely agree that it
is unlikely to change anything - whether it has 750000 signatures, or
75000000!

Im sure that realistically we are all agreed that a means of taxing
road usage is fair, on the condition that the revenue generated is
used to improve both public and private transport systems, and fund
research etc into ways of protecting the environment. What I suspect
people object to really is the governments thinking behind the scheme:
Firstly even if this scheme replaced the current road tax system,
undoubtedly they plan to drastically increase the revenue generated
from the cash cow that is the average motorist, without giving
anything back to them. Secondly, they seem to have overlooked the fact
that Big Brother is just a TV show that people watch for
entertainment, and isnt the sort of society we would like to live in.

I suspect that, should any government try to introduce something like
this, they'll soon find that the fuel tax protests of a few years ago
will seem like a walk in the park compared with the utter outrage that
will be demonstrated by this policy.