What i dont get about flying taxes is i heard this idea, or perhaps it is now in (i dont fly so i wouldnt know) of taxing or charging individual passengers for their "emissions", or their share of the planes emissions as it were. Yet many airlines have been known to fly planes with nobody on them to keep to quota's etc so who pays for the emissions on those flights? Hmmm.

I dont agree high fuel prices is ever a good idea as it doesnt cut congestion. We have alot of congestion in this country despite being ripped off left, right and centre for the privilage to use our roads. Price of fuel has doubled in the last 15 odd years yet theres 7 million ish more cars on the road than there was then, proving the logic of "make it more expensive roads become more empty" to be flawed, all it does is make people more skint and more in debt. Pricing the odd low earner out of driving is hardly a progressive plan. Fuel's gone up, insurance skyrockets, VAT's up, road tax is up but people still find a way by hook or crook to pay for it because for the vast majority of drivers there is no alternative. There is this bizarre thinking amongst MP's, eco groups and various brainless idiots that everybody all drives on the roads at the same time in the morning just to be really annoying.

But still the dirty secret that keeps getting swept under the carpet is most of the pump price is tax, not fuel. I dont mind paying a fair price for a product, at what that product is worth, but currently we're paying double what our petrol is actually worth and what it actually costs. Ive said before Governments took advantage of a low oil price for years to sponge off the motorist with ridiculous duty taxes, but those days will have to come to an end now as its not sustainable for them.

And considering the last Government called fuel duty a "green measure", the fact that fuel by the litre sales has reduced every year in the last five years, as cars get greener, more effecient and people cut their mileage where possible, yet the price of fuel has only gone up, shows that their so called ideal of nobody driving is very flawed, because they want the money, and they'd find a way to steal it from us elsewhere if we all stopped driving.

Imagine if everybody bought a Band A car tomorrow. Deary me.

No worries, unthrottled, have spent a good chunk of my life in and around the motor trade. Always interested in cars here, (my brother in law was a small importer here in jordan for 8 years importing cars and pick ups from china) they are really coming along. The greatwall supermini that will be on sale in the uk soon is here selling for about 8000 quid and that includes an eyewatering 100% or so import duty, Chevrolet cruze 1.6 ls aircon auto for 17000jd that's less than 15grand and also includes more than 100%taxes. Against that there was a brand new RR (white) parked outside a restaurant, think of the taxes that guy has paid. Someone even has a Roewe 750 on sale.... Finally, The UK is one of the cheapest countries in europe to tax a car, and that's too much for me too, because sod all of it is spent on the roads, but don't tell our glorious leader that the uk is cheap on motoring taxation or.........