From the Autoexpress site:

The Government is looking at cutting car tax for motorists in rural areas in a bid to prevent the widespread petrol pump protests seen last month.

Chancellor Gordon Brown is strongly opposed to a 2p cut in petrol duties, a move that would cost £1billion in lost taxes, but he has recently been in talks with hauliers, farmers and the elderly and is thought to be looking at a £110 cut in car tax. The move would see annual tax for a car over 1200cc fall from £155 to just £45. Any announcement will be made at the end of this month when the country's pre-budget report is unveiled.

 

AWD

You can get the bus/tube!.

In carrot cruncher land we don't have such luxuries. Walk, horse, mountain bike or the Scoob.

6 mile round trip to get a paper.
12 mile round trip to get the shopping.

Unrestricted roads with no speed cameras and loads of great driving roads to take the Scoob on....yeah maybe being in the middle of nowhere aint so bad after all.....and good old Gordon is going to pay me for it....EXCELLENT!!!

 

Dave

Are you happy now that you've had a good gloat?

 

Have you taken a bus or tube lately? They're hopeless.

 

Yes they are pretty bad, but I'm sure that Red Ken's magic policies will make everything wonderful in no time.

Sorry - feeling a tad cynical.

 

AWD
Thanks mate much better now i've got that off my chest

Mulder
I did forget to mention I commute into London every day by train.....the Stansted Airport to London service is poo...and that's one of the better ones!!

 

Brown can lower the car tax if he likes but that will not change the fact that fuel duty in this country is a pi55 take. Until he actually gets off his fat *** and alters that then the general populace will still be pretty peaved.

 

I want to know what the criteria are for being classed as living in the country? There will be countless cases of a rich bloke who gets the discount and his poor old dear of a neighbour who doesn't 'cos she lives 0.00001 miles outside the countryside zone.

Even in Farnborough the bus is a joke. It's normally faster to walk. By the time you've waited 3 millennia for a bus, and been driven round half the county, you've died of old age.

Jerome.

 

At least you've got the option of a bus! My nearest stop is 12 miles away and that bus goes once a day to Harrogate at a totally useless time to anyone. Nearest supermarket is maybe 18 miles. You HAVE to have a car, but I wouldn't have it any other way - the rural Britain is the bollocks!

Moss

 

A sizable chunk of the population on this side of the Irish sea seems to have found the only real use for buses. Setting them on fire to keep your hands warm on a cold morning.

 

Big Deal...

Assuming you cover an average 10000 miles a year (probably more if you commute to work by car daily):-

How much is your annual fuel bill?
What percentage of that total is fuel duty? What percentage of that fuel duty does a £100 rebate represent?

Not an overly generous offer is it?.

 

takes me 10 minutes by car to get to work. Takes me 90 minutes by public transport.

Thats if i am working normal hours, when i have to work late/early due to the support role i have it's even worse.

Nuff said.

Bollix to this country, i am of to the Nurburgring now, get some decent roads under my belt.

 

Bloody typical.
Those country types drive around in their Range Rovers and other whopping great 4x4's doing 4mpg and destroying the roads with their chunky tyres, taking two parking spaces when they go shopping saying 'You don't come from round here' when us city slickers go into their locals to share the wealth and the government want to give 'em a discount!

Next the government will be giving foxes vallium to slow 'em down so they can catch 'em easier

 

Guys who live in rural areas,

So what if anyone living in/near a city can catch a bus/tube? Sorry, but if you live in a rural area, it is almost certainly a lifestyle choice. Surely you (like myself) are *choosing* to live somewhere away from the city and understand that there is no (reasonable) alternative to a car? Why should you (or I) therefore get a petrol discount over those who live in areas with (albeit poor) alternative methods of transport?.. I don't follow that logic.


Matthew
(lives in a rural area by the way...)

 

MatthewR

Agree with you 100% - my post was a JOKE (nearly)