I do agree to introduce further charges immediately would be counterproductive to the BEV ownership take up - and quite frankly I don't like the idea of having to pay for something I don't have to pay now - but i can also see the mess the country is in - whatever and whoever created the conditions that have diminished the value of the currency and increased interest rates - and pegged wage rises - all i do know for sure is the problem can be solved by throwing money at it - and you have to have money first to be able to throw it.
You have to remember too, MPs are just men and women with the same flaws as the rest of us, sure, most came from wealth so have never experienced hardship and therefore they don't understand what that feels like - but they do utter the words of understanding whilst continuing to enjoy many perks of the job that cushion them from the real world. But however bad they can be we do need them and every 4 or 5 years we have a choice which set of useless individuals we want in power as they are pretty much all the same whatever party flag.
I know we all get annoyed with them, but the media are pretty bad too, creating fear and panic - not reporting the news but creating it, but that's the society we live in and have to work with and moaning, protests, petitions etc just won't change anything - so may as well embrace it.
Years ago we paid road tax, as i understood it I paid for the right to be on the road - this was early 1970s, somehow it all got changed to a tax dependent on emissions and for sure that would have been an idea by some spotty face ex university kid who worked out that a link to emissions would raise more revenue - but had no idea something like an electric car would ever be feasible - so now things have to change.
Regarding the counterproductive issues - well the government say they will ban new ICE sales by 2030, (Though I'm sure some entrepreneur will find a loop hole in which people buy from another country and just import them) they say they want to drive EV sales and they want more sustainable energy but that didn't stop them removing the EV subsidy, the FIT payments on solar, the removal of 5% vat on batteries for solar storage so some psychologist must be engaged advising the government about people's reactions to change and how to break down resistance to that change - far more clever people in government circles than me.
So, I'm going to enjoy my Tesla or whatever BEV I have in the future irrespective of what happens. I do have a theory, if you don't watch the news, read a newspaper or view online reports you wouldn't be aware of any changes to your life - not even changes of government would impact because what one gives back, they take it elsewhere - and we would all have a much more content life not knowing.
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... But then again, that why its not called road tax anymore... If Iever make a bit of cash on the side and dont declare it, I sure aint losing any sleep over it!
