Well, the oil and gas subsidies to private companies that are making record profits currently stands at 18bn, so that makes a big impact in your figure.
I suppose the other thing I’d ask is how much you think climate change is going to cost the UK on an annual basis in pure economic terms
Strategy: let’s stop burning oil which the planet can not afford
Things that support strategy:
You see how this goes? We decide on the macro level aims and then come up with a range of policies which support those goals
Same here
It’s a really interesting point and I hadn’t thought about street parking as an uncosted benefit before. I suppose the suburban semi with a drive also has street parking, which means that they get the benefit too, it’s a public good, but they’re only using it for visitors or n+1 cars. No easy solution for that.
The key point I was making though, before we get too distracted by the parking argument, is that for those of us driving electric without home charging it’s already very expensive and it would be nice to rebalance that if we’re going to move to per mile road pricing.
It is also strange to move just one vehicle fuel type to per mile taxation, rather than all of them.
I’m in a first floor flat, I park on the road outside. On street parking would be sensible but as you say, not mandated at present.
I’m not sure where you’re based, but here in the UK about 60% of urban homes don’t have off-street parking - much of our housing infrastructure was built before cars were a thing.
The complaint is that without off street parking, there is nowhere to put an EV charger, so you have to use public charging infrastructure. Public charging has higher costs, by about 6x.
If the government really had an aim to reduce UK carbon emission, which is its stated position, then encouraging use of public transport and electric transport would be a strategic choice which this new road tax and the increased tax levels for public charging don’t seem to support.
There are many ways in which this could be resolved, none of which are being pursued by this government.
For those of us who can’t charge at home, who are already paying sky high rates for electricity, this is just another kicking on top of the kicking that we’re already getting for the crime of not having big enough houses for charging ports.
Another short-term, non-strategic, ill thought through policy. Yay.
evolution has packed lots of clothes for every occasion
I love this analogy
These threads are always such a fascinating voyage of discovery
Should have laid off the avocado on toast maybe?
I’ve just started into a pixel art journey for a game I’m making, currently using LibreSprite. This looks like it’s going to be that on steroids, am I right? I’m guessing that what I lose in simplicity I gain in toolset power?
We already pay vehicle tax, same as all other vehicles? If it’s about taxing vehicles per road mile, let’s do that for everyone.
But let’s also put in place an overall tax regime which contributes to the strategic goal of carbon reduction, a multi-faceted aim.