APPG 2030 Ban

Fair Fuel APPG for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers August 2021 Page | 5 “My constituents are already facing big pressures on their household budgets. Now the prospect of a ban on petrol and diesel cars threatens to make driving the pastime of a privileged few. The Government urgently needs to rethink this out of touch policy, which will be bad for working families and potentially bad for the environment too.” Graham Stringer, Labour Party MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997 “This is a serious and well-researched report that should force policy makers to face facts and to level with the British public about the costs – to them – of bans on petrol and diesel vehicles and the timescale intended for this.” Andrew Lewer MBE Conservative MP for Northampton South “The arbitrary proposed 2030 sales ban of new diesel and petrol vehicles is one of the Government’s nanny-state interventions to vainly try to achieve its unrealistic and hugely expensive Net Zero target. Unfortunately, this policy has no regard for our road users and will pile additional costs on to hard pressed consumers and businesses. “I welcome this report’s recommendations – particularly regarding the establishment of a Road User Consultative Group. This way our road users and taxpayers can demonstrate clearly to Government the strength of feeling and concern about their current approach.” Philip Davies Conservative MP for Shipley in West Yorkshire “This report’s recommendations warrant serious consideration. Ministers must level with the British public about how the Government plans to replace the billions of pounds of revenue currently raised through fuel duty and the true cost of their plans. Before Net Zero was conceived the UK was facing electricity shortfalls regardless of any growth in the economy. Is boosting generating capacity from renewable sources going to be enough and will it mean huge hikes in the cost of electricity? We need a detailed independent fiscal evaluation of the cost of the government’s plans including the impact on low-income families, independent garages, logistics operations and small businesses. Moreover, will the government’s policy achieve substantially lower emissions, or will it principally move the environmental damage from car use to the car manufacturing process itself? This report is therefore both opportune and welcome as it examines these issues and suggests how the Government might reasonably move forward in developing future road transport policy.” Sir Greg Knight, Conservative MP for East Yorkshire since 2001, having previously served as the MP for Derby North from 1983 to 1997, and a minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.