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Quentin Willson is one of Britain’s best-known motoring authorities. He spent over a decade presenting BBC's Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and was largely responsible for bringing the once scandalously high prices of new cars in the UK down to the same level as the rest of Europe. He is the lead spokesmen for FairFuelUK and works closely with the team behind the fight for lower fuel prices called Peter Carroll Associates
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[ posted by J King, August 15, 2011 17:51 ]
£28.2 billion spent on the roads and social costs of carbon emissions?
looks like carbon emissions are much more expensive than I thought as on the roads, especially cumbrian ones I think they spent approx £400 last year, and every penny of that was on a new speed camera, so they can take more tax.
we buy a car and when we do we pay value added TAX, then we need to insure it and on that we pay value added TAX, then we need to buy road fund licence TAX to drive it on the roads, then we need to buy fuel paying value added TAX on the fuel, then we have to pay fuel duty TAX on the fuel we buy, then we have to pay Value added TAX on the Fuel duty TAX. After 3 years we need to buy an MOT test, and pay value added TAX on that and any parts, and then we need to pay parking TAX to park off the road on a council carpark.
So with our roads, contently closed and almost as smooth as the lunar surface, please let me know where this money is going?