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Default If you have a diesel car, look out.

On 10-Mar-18 11:59 AM, GB wrote:
On 10/03/2018 11:14, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

No oner will buy new ones, but old ones hold value


As the evidence on health risks rises, there may come a time when the
govt. decides to price them off the road by hiking the road tax or
taxing diesel fuel.


Make diesel more expensive and the RPI goes up. Almost everything we buy
is moved by diesel powered commercial vehicles. In 2015, HGVs and vans
in the UK consumed 11.7 million tonnes of diesel fuel.


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