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Fair Fuel APPG for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers August 2021 Page | 13 Recommendation 4. The Government should create a Road User Consultative Group , to include cyclists, motor bikers, cars, van drivers, taxis, and truckers. This vital policy advisory panel should be made up of associations and organisations who represent grass root road users, together with the APPG for Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and Hauliers but not the profit motivated commercial groups or highly financed green campaigners. Their remit to advise, scrutinise and support the Transport, Environment and Treasury Departments on all aspects of rural and urban road transport strategies, air quality plans and future vehicle taxation. Recommendation 5. The Government should explain in future Budgets how they are to replace the loss of Fuel Duty revenue without increasing it for the world’s already highest taxed drivers. Work with FairFuelUK and the APPG to develop a fair and equitable way to replace £35bn of Fuel Duty and VAT. All road users whatever their vehicles must pay to use our roads and highways, irrespective of their chosen ‘fuel’ technology. P lease note: A detai led report focussing on the future of Fuel Duty and i ts replacement w i l l be publ ished by the APPG before the Autumn Statement 2021. Recommendation 6. The APPG and FairFuelUK are calling for an Air Quality Working Party , free from vested interests, to scientifically determine where the greatest levels of particulate, nitrogen dioxide and other ‘damaging’ pollutants really come from, and how to reduce them in the short to medium term. The reason is clear; currently drivers are taking an unequal and the most punitive hit on improving air quality. No other source of emissions is being asked to pay charges for their release of the same pollutants. Time for ALL polluters to take their share of fiscal punishments that until now, have been unfairly targeted on diesel and petrol drivers. Recommendation 7. The APPG believe that new low-cost fuel catalysts currently available here in the UK should be independently tested asap , in order to ascertain their claimed effectiveness to reduce vehicle emissions and reduce fuel consumption. It is already a legal requirement in the State of Texas, amongst other territories, for these fuel additives to be dispensed from fuel pumps with an approved emission reducing catalyst. Using fuel catalysts, the decline in all emissions across the UK in excess of 50% with savings to drivers averaging 10% cannot be ignored. Such reductions will have huge benefit on urban air quality and encourage more consumer spending with extra tax revenue to the Treasury. Plus with climate-neutral e-fuels under development, nearly 40 million passenger cars with combustion engines in the UK could be powered in a climate-neutral manner without any technical adjustments or conversions. These solutions to lower emissions are here now and must be considered.