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Author:  pcernie [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24633528

Should interest ya...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
The MOT freeze is good but will garages make up any losses with higher repair bills?

As for the price comparison on motorways that is probably good but who will pay for it and how up to date will it be. It might be better to have a second filling station at service stops so that there will be some competition.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
All the measures are fiddling as the Titanic sinks. Fuel is £1.40 a litre, the vast portion of which is tax, and we've spent nothing on public transport infrastructure for decades. That's the problem. Guaranteed price for M.O.T.s? So you're saving probably less than a pound a week, unless you've got a newish car in which case you're saving exactly nothing. Signs on roads will be good for that subgroup of people that likes buying petrol when they don't have to, as some sort of leisure activity. Whiplash injuries contribute to insurance fees no doubt, but who here is going to stick their hand up and say if they stopped claims for whiplash altogether, the insurance companies would pass the saving on to the customer? Anyone?

I mean, it's just utterly ludicrous. It's the kind of policy you would have to be leprous gibbon to suggest. Anyone who thinks they'll make any real contribution whatsoever to the UK's transport problems needs their bumps examining.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
The poor motorist is already adequately taxed to fund adequate road maintenance and superb public transport but that would mean they would have to raise other taxes to make up the difference. While road taxes probably do not fully cover the real and true costs of motoring, such as pollution, they need to do more to appease motorists. This is just an empty gesture.
Author:  rustybucket [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
Amnesia10 wrote:
The poor motorist is already adequately taxed to fund adequate road maintenance and superb public transport but that would mean they would have to raise other taxes to make up the difference. While road taxes probably do not fully cover the real and true costs of motoring, such as pollution, they need to do more to appease motorists. This is just an empty gesture.

Firstly, there's no such thing as road tax

Secondly, the money raised by VED and other motoring taxes doesn't cover the present cost of maintenance, never mind "adequate road maintenance and superb public transport"
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 5:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fuel price comparison signs on major roads, MoT cost freeze
I thought that the VED and fuel duties raised 4 times more than the government paid out in road maintenance.
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