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Range Rover Blues:
Now my brain hurts.
ChrisW:
--- Quote from: "C C" ---Ok this is the whole budget.
The interesting bits start on. page 170
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/bud06_completereport_2320.pdf
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2.3MB file just in case the page 170 bit didn't give you a clue :wink: :lol:
Mean Green:
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--- Quote ---a new higher band of graduated VED (band G), set at £210 for petrol cars, will be introduced for the most polluting new cars (those above 225g of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre);
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see red highlight :D
Well at least that is something... since Diesel 4x4's out number Petrol by about 2:1 in today's sales, I cant see it make the slightest bit of difference!
Range Rover Blues:
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--- Quote from: "Cherry Bomb" ---Excuse me for being thick but.......
Does that mean if our truck was registered before 2001 we're looking at a £5 increase in road tax??
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Absolutely. Cars registered before 2001 will always only be taxed on the grounds of their engine size since the manufacturers weren't obliged to provide CO2 values back then.
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What p***es me off is that none of us can get reduced tax for running cleaner fuels, like LPG or Biodiesel.
Interestingly, Biodiesel/Veg oil are carbon neutral fuels, meaning the plants absorb the CO2 made by the engine. The big picture is that such cars are solar powered :wink:
Electric cars on the other hand are not, they rely on power stations to burn fossil fuels, so not really that clean after all :roll:
The big plus with electric cars is when they incorporate regenerative braking, as used on the railways. For those who don't know this means using the motor as a generator to recharge the batteries, converting the momentum of the car back into electric charge rather than heat energy in brakes.
Trouble is the people in power don't understand anything about how the world works, this lot are also too easliy swayed by the antis, but then we knew that already right :wink:
Cherry Bomb:
--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---
--- Quote from: "jnoshea" ---
--- Quote from: "Cherry Bomb" ---Excuse me for being thick but.......
Does that mean if our truck was registered before 2001 we're looking at a £5 increase in road tax??
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Absolutely. Cars registered before 2001 will always only be taxed on the grounds of their engine size since the manufacturers weren't obliged to provide CO2 values back then.
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What p***es me off is that none of us can get reduced tax for running cleaner fuels, like LPG or Biodiesel.
Interestingly, Biodiesel/Veg oil are carbon neutral fuels, meaning the plants absorb the CO2 made by the engine. The big picture is that such cars are solar powered :wink:
Electric cars on the other hand are not, they rely on power stations to burn fossil fuels, so not really that clean after all :roll:
The big plus with electric cars is when they incorporate regenerative braking, as used on the railways. For those who don't know this means using the motor as a generator to recharge the batteries, converting the momentum of the car back into electric charge rather than heat energy in brakes.
Trouble is the people in power don't understand anything about how the world works, this lot are also too easliy swayed by the antis, but then we knew that already right :wink:
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With you on that one. I'm (like lots of others) running on LPG
No tax break though!! :roll:
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