To not understand how there isn’t public uproar about this

[PinkiOcelot]

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1395481/car-tax-changes-update-pay-per-mile-family-road-costs-fairfuel-exclusive/amp

I’ve posted this on a couple of FB groups I’m on and get very little response. Do people not realise the impact this is going to have?!
It’ll certainly price me off the road!!

[1Morewineplease]

The Daily Express is renowned for its overly sensational headlines... eg arctic blast to hit Britain when the temperature falls to 4 degrees.
I would take this headline with a pinch of salt.
Someone from Berkshire, driving daily into The City, might incur these charges, but hardly anyone would do so.
A pinch of salt might be needed here.

[NiceGerbil]

They don't say where the group they have spoken to got their info from.

So massive pinch of salt.

[Waxonwaxoff0]

I can't drive so it's not something that would be on my radar.

[PinkiOcelot]

That wasn’t the only place I’ve read it.

[NiceGerbil]

Got any more links?

[Tal45]

It would be terrible for commuters, my OH used to have a round trip of 100 miles every day - can't imagine how much that would cost a year. I guess people aren't really responding because they don't think it will happen though. I hope not anyway!

[NiceGerbil]

The main reason I'm sceptical is there's no differentiation between people in or around cities and those who live in the countryside miles from anywhere.

I can't see that any government would implement something so blunt. Especially the Tories who do worse in cities and better elsewhere.

Links please.

[LimaFoxtrotCharlie]

Good plan, hope the government introduces this. It might stop people driving very short distances that could easily be walked or cycled.

[hilariousnamehere]

That's also very misleading starting with "families" - it's basically any driver?!

[KrisAkabusi]

Nobody's talking about it because it's nonsense. It's one group's opinion, based on no evidence and a worst case scenario. There's an awful lot of 'may', 'could' and 'up-to' in the article. It's click-bait scaremongering.

[bp300]

It would save me money as I do a low mileage. The people who use the roads more should pay for them.

[Buccanarab]

There's no outrage because it's absolute rubbish. The government are exploring how they'll plug the gap from a fall in VED when electric vehicles become the norm.

One proposal is a pay per mile system but a) it's just one option they're looking at and b) the figure of 75p per mile appears to have been plucked out of the air by Nick Freeman aka Mr Loophole.

It's far more likely they'll just keep the current banding system were used to with VED and change the charge basis from CO2 emissions per mile to something like vehicle weight, battery efficiency or some other random measure.

[dotdashdashdash]

Well they obviously need to change it because the current systems relies on emissions, which in a few years will essentially be null and void.

However I will worry about what the new system is when there are more reliable sources reporting it.

[Africa2go]

75p per mile, my old 120 mile round trip to work would cost £90 per day

Even for a 20 mile commute, you'd be paying £15 a day!

No chance of that getting through - it would have a catastrophic impact on workers.

[Fountainsoftea]

Dh and I would love to do lower mileage. But you can't always choose where you work.

[DumplingsAndStew]

@bp300

It would save me money as I do a low mileage. The people who use the roads more should pay for them.

So a tax on disabled people? Great.

[Dobbyafreeelf]

@bp300

It would save me money as I do a low mileage. The people who use the roads more should pay for them.

@bp300 thanks!!! As a self employed carer who does approx 2000 miles per month on little more than min wage I appreciate your support! 😡

[Givemeabreak88]

I don’t drive so I don’t care

[PinkiOcelot]

drivetribe.com/p/motorists-in-britain-may-face-added-E3Xb1JLCSTagWbarkGSBig?iid=dHBgTZbgQfacbi9STONP9A

[PinkiOcelot]

@Givemeabreak88 so you don’t buy anything online that gets delivered, you don’t take a bus or a taxi?!!

[Givemeabreak88]

No I walk everywhere. So no I don’t care.

[Dobbyafreeelf]

@Givemeabreak88

No I walk everywhere. So no I don’t care.

@Givemeabreak88 perhaps you will care when someone you love (or yourself) requires care at home and they have to pay a much larger sum to cover the cost of the fuel to get to them?

[ConeHat]

It's a really hard article to read because of the layout.

If this came in I would be stuffed as I live rural. I do keep thinking that everything is heading to the perfect storm.to kill off the high street as theres no chance I would pop into town unless I absolutely had to. It would be pushed onto delivery drivers to so shopping online would go up in price.

We need to hit these emission targets but unless you can buy and charge a electric car we are all a bit buggered

[GoneFishing99]

Needs doing. Somehow we have to fix our emissions.

[Tablegs]

@GoneFishing99

Needs doing. Somehow we have to fix our emissions.

Millions of people working from home for the last year will have reduced emissions, and I can see that in future, many people will continue to do so. The trouble with that, of course, is that it also reduces tax revenue, so the government will have to find the money by taxing in another way.

Can't say I'm in favour of this idea though - it will penalise many people who live rurally where public transport is thin on the ground, or indeed non-existent.