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ROAD PRICING & TAXES * UK - Gordon Brown is a non-driver: is that why he taxes us so much?
London,UK -Road Transport -30 October 2007: -- One reason why Gordon Brown (UK's 1st. Minister) is so keen to put up fuel prices might be that he is a “non-driver who has “never brought a litre of fuel in his life”... This statement comes in a book called Gordon Brown, by Tom Bower, a highly experienced investigative journalist who is very critical of Brown... There is an interesting section on the fuel dispute. The book says: “Despite his self-declared passion for enterprise, he did not understand the arithmetic that high fuel prices had deprived road hauliers of any profits”... The book says that a person appeal by Tony Blair to reconsider a tax reduction was rejected... It is worth remembering this as Brown again puts up fuel prices and again receives a windfall income from the higher price of fuel...
* Bedrock of support for
Many members of the public are in favour of road pricing, an Ipsos Mori poll released last week suggests.
London,UK -Road Tranport -30 October 2007: -- Some 61% of respondents said they would support road pricing if the money raised was reinvested in public transport. However, although the survey did not specifically question respondents about their attitudes to trucks, 81% of the 2,000 people surveyed chose either emissions levels or engine size as the charging criterion. Support for the scheme fell slightly if the revenue was passed back to the motorist as lower fuel duty (49% in favour) or road tax (53%)...
* DfT refutes idea that road pricing will be abandoned
London,UK -Road Tranport -29 October 2007: -- The DfT rejects reports in the national press suggesting that the government is about to abandon a national road pricing scheme following a petition to Downing Street by 1.8 million drivers. It says: "As we have said many times, no decision has been made about a national road pricing scheme"...
* UK - The Chancellor gets £3billion fuel windfall while hauliers suffer
London,UK -Road Tranport -29 October 2007: -- ... The soaring price of fuel is good news – but only if you are the Prime Minister or Chancellor... According to an analysis by accountants Grant Thornton (reported in the Daily Telegraph), the increase in fuel prices will generate an extra £3 billion this year... This windfall would be enough to fund a 6p cut in fuel duty. But our Prime Minister plans to increase duty by another 2p in April and another in 2009...
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