The car park scheme will be scrapped from the end of this year, forcing owners of electric cars already registered with it to pay £2,000 for an annual permit next year. This will increase to £4,000 in 2010 and to £6,396 - the same as everyone else pays - in 2011. Today's value in American dollars:
| Live rates at 2008.06.24 17:03:49 UTC |
6,396.00 GBP
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=
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12,603.63 USD
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| United Kingdom Pounds |
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United States Dollars |
| 1 GBP = 1.97055 USD |
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1 USD = 0.507473 GBP |
1 posted on
06/24/2008 10:07:37 AM PDT by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Don’t they acutally charge you a huge fee just to drive in the core area of London on a daily basis? Were in the hell to they get the money to pay for all this?
2 posted on
06/24/2008 10:12:15 AM PDT by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: Stoat
Will an F350 SuperDuty fit in that spot? No? Dang, I guess I will have to keep on paying what I pay.....ZERO.
When will liberals learn that their feel-goody little save-the-earth kneejerk policies DO NOT WORK.
3 posted on
06/24/2008 10:14:18 AM PDT by
envisio
(If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
To: Stoat
$12,000 USD to park a golf cart?
I guess thats OK concidering they’re so enlightened and all.
5 posted on
06/24/2008 10:18:13 AM PDT by
envisio
(If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
To: Stoat
This ability of the British - and Europeans in general - to placidly accept the most outrageous demands and restrictions placed on them by their government just never fails to amaze me. Where is the British Howard Jarvis or Ronald Reagan?
To: Stoat
“6,396.00 GBP = 12,603.63 USD”
Hmmmm, ok, let’s see, there are, what, around 270 working days in a year? That works out to $46.68 dollars per day for a comuter to park and $34.53 per day for someone living there 365.
Ouch!
9 posted on
06/24/2008 10:34:53 AM PDT by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: Stoat
Free parking for electric cars axed - for being too successfulHa. Ha. Ha.
FMCDH(BITS)
11 posted on
06/24/2008 10:38:24 AM PDT by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Stoat
From National Statistics Online:
Median full-time weekly earnings in London were £581, significantly higher than in other regions, where they ranged from £402 in Northern Ireland to £481 in the South East.
That calculates to around £30,000/yr.
So, they're paying 20%+ of their income for parking!
13 posted on
06/24/2008 11:00:35 AM PDT by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: Stoat
Come on now....surely you cannot expect a country that was founded in the days of dirt and horses to just launch into things like electric car parking!!!! ;)
/sarcasm
17 posted on
06/24/2008 11:27:14 AM PDT by
BossLady
("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
To: Stoat
This is no different than the Germans charging moving violation fees based on your income. Socialism punishes achievement...and it comes in many forms.
18 posted on
06/24/2008 11:31:04 AM PDT by
MissouriConservative
(There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that and you're doomed)
To: Stoat
What the government “giveth,” the government can “taketh away.”
20 posted on
06/24/2008 11:41:14 AM PDT by
Marie2
(It's time for a ban on handgun bans)
To: Stoat
Ahh the Law of Unintended Consequences...ain’t it a bitch?!?
21 posted on
06/24/2008 11:43:37 AM PDT by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: Stoat
Your first hit is free...
24 posted on
06/24/2008 11:52:38 AM PDT by
Doohickey
(SSN: One ship, one crew, one screw.)
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