Smile If You've Got A Petrol Engine

[K9Brian]

Despair if you've got a diesel cos it's going to cost you. Looks like we can expect to get fleeced - again .

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/motori...l-charges-and-big-depreciation-11363978817654

 

[Tootles]

I care?? You only have/get so much money, so you decide how to eke it out, and the end losers are then the businesses that don't sell their stuff anymore, and the same government taxing fuel, that now loses out on the tax on the stuff you don't buy anymore. So it's just a matter of prioritising......

 

[Jaws]

Yessss... and the road transport lobby is toothless and will stand by and let it happen ??????

Consider this.. if the planned massive ( ?? ) hike goes ahead every single thing you buy will be upped in price due to transport costs.. The govt ( who ever is in power ) is not gonna like that cos it is gonna REALLY mess up the inflation figures

 

[grumps147]

Have no fear, when the duty receipts from diesel fall, they will load it on to petrol.

 

[Snowbird]

I will be keeping my LPG powered Ram unless of course I can get some funding for the water powered engine .

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[johnp10]

Sooo...
Solve a pollution problem by charging people money and increasing the price of everything?
(See Jaws' post.)
That will work??
Only if you are a daft Green politician.

 

[Chris]

If they really hammer diesel cars then I think it will hammer the car industry.

People will hang on to their cars because of the depreciation factor.

They really need to think this through very carefully this time.

 

[Highwayman1]

We really are the `mugs` of Europe aren`t we ? Given all that we, as a nation, have implemented to comply with EU legislation, it is sad that the likes of so many nations in the EU have stuck their middle fingers up to things that don`t suit them or will upset the population or cost them money. Which nations have achieved their targets ?
Now lets see what our Govt has stood up for shall we ? Oh yeah - denying prisoners the right to vote is one and err - come on ..... help me out

 

[hilldweller]

>> But while diesel cars create fewer CO2 emissions, they emit significantly more
>> deadly pollutants, including up to four times as much NO2.

Typical of letting the lunatics take over the asylum. Let the numpties in power make technical regs and they always screw up.

Low energy lightbulbs is another.

Electric cars.

Wind Turbines.

It's a long list.

 

[Weinsbergaman]

We could charge all the foreign lorries coming into our country (and there are HUNDREDS EVERY DAY), polluting our air, using our worn out roads and this wouldn't cost US a penny.
Vote UKIP and get a little bit of our country back.

Cheers Antony

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[pappajohn]

Not a problem.
i will buy the same model car but in the petrol version...... it comes in the form of a 5.7 litre V8.

How much more crap in other forms is that going to chuck out ?

 

[gus-lopez]

We could charge all the foreign lorries coming into our country (and there are HUNDREDS EVERY DAY), polluting our air, using our worn out roads and this wouldn't cost US a penny.
Vote UKIP and get a little bit of our country back.

Cheers Antony

I think you will find that that is already in place.

>> But while diesel cars create fewer CO2 emissions, they emit significantly more
>> deadly pollutants, including up to four times as much NO2.

Typical of letting the lunatics take over the asylum. Let the numpties in power make technical regs and they always screw up.

Low energy lightbulbs is another.

Electric cars.

Wind Turbines.

It's a long list.

On some forums I use there are a couple of people who advise EU committee´s on aspects to do with vehicles. One said that some members are so breathtakingly naive & completely lacking in any knowledge of the committee that they are on ,that they can be guaranteed to vote for whatever the outcome that is required . He said that they just do not have the logic or wherewithal to take in any form of discussion on the subject whatsoever.

 

[chaser]

We really are the `mugs` of Europe aren`t we ? Given all that we, as a nation, have implemented to comply with EU legislation, it is sad that the likes of so many nations in the EU have stuck their middle fingers up to things that don`t suit them or will upset the population or cost them money. Which nations have achieved their targets ?
Now lets see what our Govt has stood up for shall we ? Oh yeah - denying prisoners the right to vote is one and err - come on ..... help me out

Beat me to it.
If this is a EU thing how is it that diesel is cheaper than petrol over there

 

[GWAYGWAY]

Organise the putting of pollution monitors in a place that isn't in London, by a set of traffic lights where the jams occur somewhere like Herefordshire and ergo problem solved no pollution problem. My Motorhome does not pollute a lot as it only goes occasionally then it is on open road until I get where I am going preferably miles from any poxy city environment. We just have a problem in that we have a small island with loads of people crammed into small areas so it is bound to be concentrated in hotspots.

 

[Chris]

So everyone buys petrol engines and the CO2 levels go sky high

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[johnp10]

So everyone buys petrol engines and the CO2 levels go sky high

Then the green idiots complain to the EU courts...
Then the EU courts rule UK must control it....
UK govt "controls" it by imposing daft taxes.......
Petrol users buy deisel cars...

Then someone writes another book.
"Catch 22 Revisited"

 

[cruiser]

I have got a petrol van. so good for me. but for how long. but how can they charge more for petrol in the euro. mind you it wont be long before petrol goes up. it is already creeping up again.

 

[markh]

Changed my Ml 350 diesel for a A250 AMG merc for exactly this reason, saving a fortune and the AMG is way faster then a fat 4x4

 

[Bertie Bassett]

If they really hammer diesel cars then I think it will hammer the car industry.

People will hang on to their cars because of the depreciation factor.

They really need to think this through very carefully this time.

True Chris, very true but we both know that they won't!

 

[Bertie Bassett]

Organise the putting of pollution monitors in a place that isn't in London, by a set of traffic lights where the jams occur somewhere like Herefordshire and ergo problem solved no pollution problem. My Motorhome does not pollute a lot as it only goes occasionally then it is on open road until I get where I am going preferably miles from any poxy city environment. We just have a problem in that we have a small island with loads of people crammed into small areas so it is bound to be concentrated in hotspots.

You mean you know a politician who can think outside the LONDON freaking box.............
Names please he/she/it would get my vote.

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[Bertie Bassett]

I think you will find that that is already in place.



On some forums I use there are a couple of people who advise EU committee´s on aspects to do with vehicles. One said that some members are so breathtakingly naive & completely lacking in any knowledge of the committee that they are on ,that they can be guaranteed to vote for whatever the outcome that is required . He said that they just do not have the logic or wherewithal to take in any form of discussion on the subject whatsoever.

Errr, Gus you're talking about the EU as a whole surely?