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Old 23rd June 2008, 10:52   #31
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Just tax the fuel; it's all the incentive people need to not use their cars, or use them more sensibly.
I don't disagree, and it should be the way to go (except the JZR costs £64 to tax, our other 2 cars are in low-ish brackets) but it doesn't seem to have worked too well on fags and booze.

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Old 23rd June 2008, 11:00   #32
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My point still stands though. If you burn a litre of petrol in a 2008 Nissan micra 1.0 you will create exactly the same quantity of Co2 as if you burn 1 litre of petrol in a 1990 Ford Granada 2.9 Scorpio.

The pollution is exactly the same. The micra will have travelled further though,

I did agree with this statement
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