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Are you saying it's not illegal to buy a 220,000ml car for £2k, knock 100,000ml off the digital dash & sell it on FaceFook for £4.5k???
Do you want to buy a used car?
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EVs and drop in fuel duty
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Are you saying it's not illegal to buy a 220,000ml car for £2k, knock 100,000ml off the digital dash & sell it on FaceFook for £4.5k???
Do you want to buy a used car?
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Its not illegal to adjust the odometer but it is illegal to sell a car knowing the mileage is incorrect.
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Tell me why you'd do it.
There is only one accepted reason why anyone would want to knock a few thousand miles off an odometer.
..without making it clear and the reason why it is wrong.
wow this is an old thread - BUT in the news , and one of the many rumours for Nov 25 Budget
around again - notread all this thread - just was going to post a new one
www.bbc.co.uk
around again - notread all this thread - just was going to post a new one
EV drivers could face new pay per mile tax in Budget
The BBC understands there have been "conversations" within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I don't see what's wrong with the idea of pay-per-mile for everybody, and scrap road tax for everybody.
I've never seen anybody say that the basic idea of paying for goods and services on the basis of the more you use the more you pay is wrong. We have pay-per-pint for beer. Pay-per-litre for petrol/diesel. Pay-per-kWh for electricity. Pay-per-kg for potatoes. Why not pay-per-mile for road use?
Right now if Bill has two cars and does 5,000 miles per year in each, and Ted has 1 car and does 20,000 miles per year in it, Bill pays 2x what Ted does rather than 50%.
Is that fair?
Imagine if we'd had p-p-m for the last 100 years, and the govt said we're going to abolish that and replace it with a per-vehicle annual charge. Imagine the howls of outrage about the unfairness of that from people who had more than one car.
I've never seen anybody say that the basic idea of paying for goods and services on the basis of the more you use the more you pay is wrong. We have pay-per-pint for beer. Pay-per-litre for petrol/diesel. Pay-per-kWh for electricity. Pay-per-kg for potatoes. Why not pay-per-mile for road use?
Right now if Bill has two cars and does 5,000 miles per year in each, and Ted has 1 car and does 20,000 miles per year in it, Bill pays 2x what Ted does rather than 50%.
Is that fair?
Imagine if we'd had p-p-m for the last 100 years, and the govt said we're going to abolish that and replace it with a per-vehicle annual charge. Imagine the howls of outrage about the unfairness of that from people who had more than one car.
