On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:37:37 +0100, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:34:45 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

I would also expect petrol pumps will have to be modified to
interogate your box as well and only serve petrol if it's working
properly.

Which its "after market" software will confirm quite happily ;-)

(even if it only ever records 15 miles a week of motoring)

And 0.5mpg... Which raises the other "problem" with road pricing,
there is little incentive to go for a more economic vehicle (as in
mpg) if a majority of the driving you do is on "cheap" roads. A
"cheap" road would be one less than about 8p/mile which is roughly the
current duty element of fuel costs.

I was trying to do some guesstimations of the p/mile that would have to
prevail to get approx parity.

Take a typical vehicle which does 10k miles per annum.
This will perhaps get through £1500 of fuel most of which is tax.
So say £1500 of tax including the tax disc.

That means the average would be 15p/mile. So the general price would have
to be very much toward the low end of the ranges that were quoted in the
media.

However have really cheap fuel would put us so far out of odds with the
rest of Europe I can't see that happening. So all they could is scrap the
Car's Poll Tax (sorry Vehicle Excise Duty) and perhaps reduce fuel duty a
bit. In which case the roads would almost all have to be under 5p/mile to
get any sort of parity.


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