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CLEAN AIR ACT??

Started by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Does anyone or can anyone tell me where to find out all about this clean air act ,that is going to come into force in MAY this year ? I have been informed by a distant relative that he will have to pay £70 per day to travel into Manchester to work ,he currently owns and drives a Range Rover it is 12 years old , he his getting very worried ,i just cannot take it in that he will have to fork out so much just to get to work ,plus the petrol cost too.. Also who the hell came up with this ?? I would like to know if his vehicle was eg all electric is there no charge ??? GB .

Started: 14th Jan 2022 at 16:38

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

If it was an electric vehicle, and there was 'no charge' then it is not going to go anywhere is it

Replied: 14th Jan 2022 at 16:47

Posted by: First Mate (2324)

You have to charge electric cars or they won't work

Vehicle checker

Replied: 14th Jan 2022 at 16:50
Last edited by First Mate: 14th Jan 2022 at 17:05:12

Posted by: tonker (27835) 

GB, you’re slow on the take-up mate! This has been discussed on here quite extensively.

In a nutshell …….

Commercial vehicles, vans, lorries will have to pay.
Private vehicles, cars, are exempt.

Replied: 14th Jan 2022 at 18:03

Posted by: madamehmurray (6273) 

u wi drive a foreign car, those hybrid cars no good. i almost bought one in Alabama til someone told me they blow up in accident. my mom drives a nissian rogue. i wont ever get a foreign car again

Replied: 14th Jan 2022 at 21:21

Posted by: Platty (2107)

My son bought a new Toyota hybrid. He was impressed with it at first but he said it absolutely eats petrol when it is in a certain mode, but I can't remember which. He said "they aren't ready yet, are they?"
He took it back 11 months later and they exchanged a Volvo petrol for him.

Replied: 15th Jan 2022 at 17:57

Posted by: Platty (2107)

GB: the clean air act is all about taxes, email our friend Burnham (Tonker will explain ahere Leigh xomea into this) and ask him how much he wants this year.

Replied: 15th Jan 2022 at 18:03

Posted by: tonker (27835) 

Leigh comes into this as it’s part of Greater Manchester. They’ve put a camera up on Atherton Road to collar van drivers going from Wigan to Leigh via Ince and Hindley.
But there’s several easy ways round it!

Replied: 15th Jan 2022 at 19:30

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Tonker ! There is no need to be quite so PEDANTIC .GB

Replied: 17th Jan 2022 at 14:46

Posted by: tonker (27835) 

GB, if I wasn’t so informative, you’d just carry on knowing nowt!

Replied: 17th Jan 2022 at 20:53

Posted by: baker boy (15718)

our erstwhile mayor has been going over the london mayors congestion charge receipts and salivating at how much he can milk the public in gtr mankland,whilst pretending its all for our own good. horlicks

Replied: 17th Jan 2022 at 21:53

Posted by: tonker (27835) 

You can see the plan here. The whole country is divided, west to east coasts, including the ports of Liverpool and Hull.
Any deliveries from north to south, or vice versa, will be monopolised by the larger transport companies who can afford to run new trucks.
It will force more transport by railway, like in Europe, which is a good thing.


Replied: 17th Jan 2022 at 22:09

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

It is the way to bring in a road pricing scheme by the back door, or if you like another way for introducing the 'Congestion Charge' which a while back, was voted on and rejected.

When all of the country has got the electronic technology in place, and just remember these ANPR cameras are solar-powered, and they send their data via the mobile phone network, so they can just fasten one of those cameras, on lamp post anywhere, and the sneaky thing will work autonomously, and it is truly like the 'Big Brother' thing coming true.

When most of the vehicles in the country have been replaced and are emission compliant, or electric, then the government will announce that the Car Tax (road fund licence) system will be ended, and replaced with a road pricing scheme, charging motorists to use the roads, the more you drive, the more you will pay.

Enjoy



Replied: 17th Jan 2022 at 22:44

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

Ey up,,,, here it comes

LINK

Replied: 20th Jan 2022 at 20:23

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

'Fundamental Review' LINK

Replied: 20th Jan 2022 at 22:01
Last edited by Tommy Two Stroke: 20th Jan 2022 at 22:02:16

 

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