On 21/05/2021 16:41, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Ian Jackson wrote:
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Tim+ wrote:
Everyone here seems to obsess over the negatives and refuse to
acknowledge the positives of EVs.

On my current variable tariff my fuel costs less than 2p per mile. Even
if I was on a standard fixed rate tariff of say 15p/kWh, it would still
be under 5p per mile.

Enjoy it while you can. As the tax revenue from petrol and diesel falls,
the government will have to find a way to replace it. And the most likely
way, road pricing.

If so, this will be yet another example of how we're progressing back to
the days of travel by stagecoach.

Can't really see any other way. With diesel etc you pay more tax the more
you drive. And it's not really possible to tax electricity used in EVs
separately.

I am absolutely fine with per mile payment - as long as it is flat rate
(not penalising people from needing to travel at peak times or on
congested roads), is revenue neutral (no taking the opportunity to hike
up motoring taxes), done by tamperproof odometer (no tracking of where,
when, how fast, etc. you drive) and is not used to penalise existing
petrol and diesel vehicles by by charging it on top of fuel duty.