Man at B&Q wrote:
On Mar 14, 5:54 pm, "dennis@home"
wrote:
"Man at B&Q" wrote in ...





On Mar 14, 1:28 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
:Jerry: wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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:Jerry: wrote:
You really don't know the VED on a small car, do you?
There is only one small car that has zero VED, it's not has not
been
sold in this country for a few years and its availability (to say
the
least...) was some what limited when it was, all other cars have to
pay the VED and that cost (to the motorist) is relative to the
vehicles annual mileage, that was the point being made by "TNP".
Lowest emission petrol/diesel vehicles pay 30 quid and there are a
number
of these.
Yes, and what does that 30 quid represent to an OAP (thus a fixed
income) who does 100 miles pa, travelling to and from the post office
(assuming she still has one) and church once a week, in real terms
it's costing him/her more than the highest VED mean for the so called
"Gas guzzlers" being driven 60k pa driving to and from Scotland each
week.
Exactly.
What high VED does is to penalise low mileage people and benefit high
mileage people.
There is nothing that couldn't be done simply by raising fuel duty.
Given your moniker, you haven't really thought about this one, have
you.
So, lets take some very round figures. A does 1000miles/pa, 25mpg
(mostly short journeys) and pays £100 VED for a small car. Remove the
VED and fuel duty would need to go up by £2.50 per gallon.
B does 60k miles per year at 50mpg (longer, more efficient runs) and
pays £300 VED for a larger car, so pays 60000/50*2.5 or £3000 pa extra
or 10x the VED.
I don't think so.
MBQ
However the one doing 60k is producing more pollution (1) so if it polluter
pays it is fair.

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Depends how you measure it.

The one doing 60K is more likely to be doing longer journeys,
essential for their livelihood and running the car much more
efficiently. Why should they be penalised over the low mileage case
that is probably used for short, inefficient (ie more polluting per
mile) journeys?


Because they are producing more pollution?


I realised I took the extreme case in my example. Even if you removed
VED in a way that was revenue neutral for someone doing, say 12k miles
pa, you would still be adding about 60p/litre to fuel and penalising
higher mileages ouot of all proportion.

Utter ********.


MBQ