UK: Road tax doubles to curb ‘gas guzzlers’ (£400 tax to be slapped on 4x4s)

The Times (U.K.) ^ | March 19, 2007 | Philip Webster

[Stoat]

See Also:

The Sun Online - Sun Budget £400 tax to be slapped on 4x4s

BBC NEWS Business Budget 'to hit gas guzzlers hard'

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Biography of Gordon Brown

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Gordon Brown was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 2 May 1997. He has been the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath since 2005 and was the MP for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005. He was Opposition spokesperson on Treasury and Economic Affairs (Shadow Chancellor) from 1992.

Mr Brown was born in 1951 and educated at Kirkcaldy High School and Edinburgh University where he gained 1st Class Honours and then a Doctorate. He was Rector of Edinburgh University and Chairman of the University Court between 1972 and 1975. From 1976 to 1980, Mr Brown lectured at Edinburgh University and then Caledonian University before taking up a post at Scottish TV (1980 - 1983).

After becoming an MP, Mr Brown was the Chair of the Labour Party Scottish Council (1983 - 1984). Before becoming Shadow Chancellor he held two other senior posts on the Opposition front bench - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1987 - 1989) and Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary (1989 -1992).

Mr Brown has had a number of works published including Maxton, The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution and Where There is Greed. He has edited a number of books including John Smith: Life and Soul of the Party and Values, Visions and Voices.

Outside of work, Mr Brown`s interests include football, tennis and film.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Europe pinglist

This is to reduce the amount of pictures posted. Does posting a lot of pictures make FR more expensive to run?

[Dallas59]

Why don't they just ban cars and make everyone ride bikes?

[Stoat]

Motorcycle Hooligan / 4x4 ping

[Stoat]

4x4 / offroad ping

[Stoat]

Why don't they just ban cars and make everyone ride bikes?

shhhh...Gordon Brown (or Algore) might hear you   :-(

[Stoat]

Thanks very much for pinging your list :-)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Sure thing.

[tgusa]

Pretty soon the biggest thing you'll be able to find over there will be the Smart Car. And this, from the people who gave us the Aston Martin and Jaguar. Sad -

[Jacquerie]

Concern for the earth is a smokescreen. The actual purpose is to raise more taxes from the sheeple.

[Eclectica]

If Americans adopt the same tax, we'd be deducting it from our income tax returns. Go figure.

[Stoat]

Pretty soon the biggest thing you'll be able to find over there will be the Smart Car. And this, from the people who gave us the Aston Martin and Jaguar. Sad -

It is indeed sad.  Along with people's inability to afford 4x4's and large cars will come job losses from auto manufacturers as well as an increase in death and injury due to road accidents, which will place a greater strain on the already strained healthcare system.

[taildragger]

As if Jaguar and Land Rover are not enough of a burden on Ford's balance sheet.

This is Euro Socialism out of control, and this is what the NYT and the whole North East thinks is enlightened thought that we should emulate?

Note, he wanted to tax holidays such as flights on an airliner, which are bad carbon wise via his mindset. This might be great for Florida real estate, because many may leave and never come back....

[yankeedame]

WAY off the subject, I know but can anyone tell me what on earth these ribbon thingies are for?

While poking around on google under "Vintage cars" I came across countless photo of vintage cars -- all makes and models -- with these ribbons on them.

[britemp]

They are Wedding Cars. The ribbons are tied on before taking the bride to the church.

[britemp]

'Pretty soon the biggest thing you'll be able to find over there will be the Smart Car. And this, from the people who gave us the Aston Martin and Jaguar. Sad -'

Not so, you just have to drive a vehicle with a diesel engine. Pretty much everything in the UK is available as a diesel and they put out far less CO2 than petrol/gasoline engines. Even the biggest Jaguar, the XJ6 comes with a superb twin-turbo diesel which drops it below the top band.

But don't get me wrong - I totally disagree with this green tax nonsense and we will soon get the chance to kick Labour out for good!

[agere_contra]

That's quite interesting that the wedding ribbon thing is not as well known as I would have thought. Thank you for your post.

[Sarajevo]

It's OK to have a "big gas guzzler" as long as the government gets it's cut, that is until the government thinks of another way to suck more "taxes" out of the populace.

[mewzilla]

...will enjoy tax reductions, it is believed by insiders...

I have one word: Suckers!

[mewzilla]

It's OK to have a "big gas guzzler" as long as the government gets it's cut, that is until the government thinks of another way to suck more "taxes" out of the populace.

In my neck of the woods that's called extortion. Unless, of course, it's the government doing the extorting :(