So how much is your car tax going up by?

[Will]

Originally Posted by Jonny69

Will, it's specifically beef farming. Sounds insanely silly but cows farting methane contributes more to greenhouse effect than cars worldwide. Methane holds a lot more heat than CO2 (I think it's 5 times as much - would have to check) and eventually breaks down into CO2 and water anyway.

Edit: Correction. Methane holds just over twice as much as CO2 according to here for CO2 and [url=http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/methane-d_980.html]here for methane[/ul]

Well let's eat more cows then! Problem solved! So you see cars are clean! Tax the cows not us!

[Will]

I can't stand this CO2 crap. It's just an easy tax to impose, the small fish (us). *sigh*

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/apocalypseno-dvd.html
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/pdf/Memo_0708.pdf
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/...al_Warming.pdf
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...74-664,00.html
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com

Some of my favourite reading. I've got a I love CO2 sticker on my car too

[lostkat]

My next car will be a MK2 Escort, so they can stick their tax up their bloody arse!!

[jmc41]

I got lucky (mine is due end of March) and someone at work said "get it now".
Class D so only £5 saved - for a 1600cc engine interestingly enough.

I agree with what Zirax said though, you don't want to be taking something like a Getz onto the motorway, it just doesn't have the power even for it's size to quickly pass a lorry or pull out without a gap the size of I dunno, the size of this new aeroplane?

I tried public transport to get down to Portsmouth. Long story short it took longer, cost almost twice the price, and I had to travel at night (as in, got there after midnight...)

[Darrin]

Mine is a whopping $40 for the year.

Mind you, I pay considerably more for petrol per mile than any of you do, even figuring the difference in price. But I have no choice. I can buy a **** load of petrol for the truck for what a $300 a month car payment and $200 additional a month in full coverage insurance would cost me, and I'd still need to tax and insure the truck to haul my firewood. And the truck is a whole hell of a lot more reliable. I don't care what it is, a new car is going to have a problem and need repairs in the first 5 years of its life. My truck hasn't needed a damned thing in 5 years.

[Grandad]

up from 205 to 440

excellent

[Nutcase]

Originally Posted by lostkat

My next car will be a MK2 Escort, so they can stick their tax up their bloody arse!!

I thought the Mk2 only came in in 1975? So still taxed.

I don't do many motorway miles in my cars (although a heck of a lot in the van!). There are a few places where it gets interesting with a small engine, but my little 1.2 corsa and before that my 1.3 metro coped ok

When the saabs are running, no problems at all, 2 litre goodness

[Wossi]

*looks outside to company car and grins*

[A Place of Light]

I'm going to be looking at an increase of a fiver, from £115 to £120.


Coupled with an average of 53.5 mpg and I'm not complaining.

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Wossi

*looks outside to company car and grins*

But think of all that lovely tax you pay on your company car