Sorry guys but £210 in road tax that would be a dream for me. I pay €1348 a year. That’s £921.77.
And lets not forget I pay VAT plus VRT of 33% on top of that just to buy a car.
The Irish government has been robbing us for decades and we can do nothing about it.
To top that off they are considering the black box system of monitoring mileage and charging accordingly but want to also keep VRT. This system will never happen as it would infringe on various privacy laws.
I didn’t see the recent docu’s but I can assume it related to natural carbons being released from the ocean floor as the temp increases and that the world has been known to have an ice age every 100,000 years long before we started polluting the environment. The theory as I understand it is an ice age will happen anyway but that we are giving it a gentle push.
If governments are (finally) so convinced that we should do something about our ways then they should focus on the manufacturers to produce more efficient engines. Taxing the user will have little effect without massive taxing to force them out of their cars. Same goes for that idiot carbon credit tax. If one government produces more carbons that another they simply purchase the credits.
The only people I’ve seen so far actually do something to publicly make a difference is F1. By 2012 (or something) the manufacturers have to produce cleaner cars. This will in turn have a knock-on effect to the manufacturers road going cars.
Now, as it’s a bank holiday here I think I shall go pollute the environment with my gas guzzler.