Why are we putting up with all these additional taxes to counter global warming. What is Gordon doing with the extra tax on fuel, the extra tax on flying? People - it's a bl***ing con.
Even the BBC is collecting money to save the earth. It saves putting up the licence fee.
One could begin to get cynical!!|||We put up with it, because we ALWAYS put up with it. Gone are the days when the British people would stand up for something.
The more we stand by the HIGHER the taxes will go. Brown has no idea how to balance the books and needs the cash from somewhere. Global Warming is the best cash cow he has ever seen.|||It isn't.
But it will reduce the amount that people drive if you raise the tax high enough. Making government fatter and giving them more power at the cost of your freedom and your economy.
Because China will be laughing all the way to the bank.|||You are right it is a con. I wish everyone would stop smoking and then watch the government panic when the tax drys up from the sales.
I am fed up with paying tax on what I earn and then paying tax again when I spend what I earn.|||When all the fuel runs out, We won't have to worry about global warming Roll on !!|||Yeah...Even Bell Gates do the same as you download some of their softwares, you can donate to the third world countries...|||it's not. Money goes to government so that they can pay their debts off. or it just goes there. I'm answering this question because I am mad at the moment. pissed off, actually.|||because they can , do you no i drive a company car and if i get it to run on cng compressed natural gas i will pay 100 % tax on it and it lets out water vapour not co2 as opossed to say 30/40% tax on a diesel car . and that pollutes . so there you have it , its about money not our granchildren . we only rent the slot we are given here so gordon i hope you burn in hell along with bush as you really dont give a dam about my granchildren nor even your own shame on you|||It will not save the World.
It will probably be self defeating because people will only marginally reduce the amount of petrol they use but will have to cut down on other purchases which would otherwise attract VAT. This may cause businesses to lose sales and to fold. More unemployment with more State payouts.|||It isn't tax to save the world, it is tax to line Gordon's and his cronies pockets, and like all things political, it will continue until we get off our backsides and do something about it!|||The whole global warming thing is one massive tax scam. The government will have a lot to answer to and look like complete ******* idiots in 5-7 years time.|||The problems can be solved when we are ready - we have solved worse! Simple organisation can resolve most, even without technology.
The taxes are straight theft, not used for global warming reduction strategies at all.
Be cynical, then you will always be near the truth.
Cheers, Steve.|||good qeustion and great answers!
The fact is a few people have allready come accross the know how, to make cars run from water, as a trained engineer this to me is quite possible, after all water is only a mix of two highly combustable gases. yet only vegatble fuels are known about as alternatives. Its all about money, and the world economy is so dependent on oil and even gas,
(because perpetual motion machines aren't so far away)
that goverments, or the powers that be, aren't really in a position to do anything, without corrupting the global bank.
Imagine free energy? no bribes because nobody has a stake,
no on going payments, because the thing powers itself? We could have that, and protect the enviroment, but no, because at the end of the day, most people are to greedy.|||The tax on petrol has 2 purposes, one is to discourage driving by anyone other than those who must and will suffer or those who have money and can afford to drive. The other purpose is to enrich the government so whichever party is in control can buy votes with housing programs, welfare, free medical care, free education, free public transport and any other government give-away program they can think of.
Remember that if you give your government the power to do everything for you, you also give them the power to do anything to you.
Either global warming is being caused by the sun or by CO2. If the pro GW scientists are right there is not enough sunlight to keep the Earth warm without the CO2. Yet if we drastically reduce the CO2 in the air, then we will have an Ice Age. I think orange groves in Cornwall are preferable to an ice sheet covering London. We had better be careful in tinkering with nature. Perhaps try to get rid of other pollutants first.
So the taxes are part of the usual political scam, but they will increase demand for higher mileage autos with less pollution. One possible choice is the steam-electric hybrid auto I saw described. It could be on sale within 3 yrs easily if a large auto firm would build them.|||You are right it is not. However, those who wish to kill our planet will at least have to pay heavily for doing so. Those that count who have to use their cars will be taxed just the same how ever careful the are about trying to make this mortal coil worth living on for the next generation. ( and the next if the planet lasts).
We can only hope those selfish individuals will come too their senses.
Good Luck to us all.|||Because the government is "recycling" our money!|||Man-made Global warming is just a myth the Government use to tax us more. The money they collect from "Green" taxes is just used to line the pockets of those in power.|||It's the only way to significantly decrease consumption.
How else can the non-producers catch up to income level of producers?
It is a con.
There may have to be a massive global tax revolt. But where will we shove off all those tax collectors?|||It wont if only England does it, its just a ploy to get more money of us to pay for the war in Iraq|||Isn't it strange that only Britain is increasing taxes and telling us that it is in the interest of the planet.Is it that Britain is the only country who knows about global warming or is it that Britain or should I say the British government is the only one looking to rip off it's citizens.The global warming numpties are the ones telling us to cut our carbon footprint and then FLYING off to some remote corner of the world to discuss what we should be doing at our(the taxpayers) expense.In the passt few million years we (the earth) has gone through ice ages and hot spells.How did the ice age come about was it because we wern't creating enough carbon dioxide.I have come to the conclusion that when any group tell us something is bad for us what they really mean is I have found a new way of making money and I am going to make as much as I can before i'm found out|||The theory is if we get taxed on petrol we will drive less. But have they ever thought about offering us an alternative. At the moment in London public transport is so over crowded and useless. Where is this tax going.
We need to be offered alternative as people are not going to stay in their houses all day because of global warming.|||If you think petrol is expensive now just wait until China really starts developing a car dependent society. The population of China has the potential demand of three USA's. That will place massive (insatiable) demand on global petrol supplies and prices will rocket.
er... no it isn't a con. Global warming/climate change is real. Get your head out of the sand!
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