Will we be charged twice for e-cars? Better to be late than not arrive at all
WELL with no more diesel or petrol cars available to buy after 2030, I presume by roughly 2050 – when they are all at the end of their lives and scrapped – the Treasury at today’s figures will be losing £27 billion per annum.
They say they will make up the revenue in tax per mile the car is used, so we will be taxed twice – once when we charge our electric car to use, and again when we use our cars on the road. Add in to that the fact that electric will go up for everyone to build more nuclear power stations for the electricity to charge our new cars. It will certainly be a health benefit as all our green revolutionaries tell us, as we will not be able to afford food after all the newly imposed taxes.
One last thing to ponder on: the battery life of a new car is 10 years.
I asked in a main dealer of a very well known Japanese car model the cost of new ones if I bought a car and had it 10 years. He supplied me with a eye-watering price.
I could pay for the batteries now or take the chance in 10 years’ time, as they might be cheaper.
Kevin Hill Bristol
LESS traffic does not necessarily mean safer roads and fewer accidents. I noticed that during lockdown drivers of the cars that were on the roads, hopefully for essential purposes, drove faster and less carefully than they should have done.
There is also the fact that people may not have driven for weeks and are a bit out of practice.
You are relatively safe in congested traffic, trundling along behind others at well below the speed limits, but those same roads can be deadly if you are driving carelessly.
Thankfully, unlike older cars several decades ago, modern cars have all sorts of safety features and crumple zones built into them so you are more likely to survive an accident now than you were then, but ultimately the best safety feature is the way you drive.
The most vulnerable are those on two wheels, cyclists, who have very little protection, and will inevitably come off worst in even a low speed collision.
So when you see an empty road ahead of you, think before you put your foot down in an effort to get to your destination just that little bit earlier. Better to be late than not arrive at all.