"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
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Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was dave F
), in message
who said:
So it's back! Should big car owners face higher tax charges?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3202590.stm

I remember this topic been discussed on this NG before the CONge$tion
charge was introduced.

I still believe large engine capacity engines and above average car
length vehicles should face an extra tax.

Also should company's that provide company cars be charged a double
vehicle tax?


Personally, I feel that big cars should pay /less/ tax, in an attempt to
encourage car-pooling. This would solve a lot of problems.

The number of vehicles on the roads at present with only one occupant is
utterly criminal. Obviously, asking four people to travel in a ****ing
supermini is veering towards the inhuman, but I'd quite happily be driven
to
work with three colleagues in an executive or luxury car. Isn't that a
sensible solution?

Car polling only works if a) everyone can commit to travel at the same time,
and b) you actually like the people that you're travelling in enough to want
to spend every morning and evening in the same car as them! But I agree - if
several people are doing the same journey each day, it makes tremendous
financial and environmental sense to consider sharing.