From: Wireless Reader 
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cars.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: road pricing...
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 07:16:39 +0100

Tiddy Ogg wrote:

>>>surely the easiest way of fixing this fairly is to put the road tax and 
>>>other premiums onto the cost of fuel,  this way, when someone drives a big 
>>>thirsty car (environmental angle) they pay more, as does the "heavy road 
>>>user"  it seems to me its a win win situation..
>>
>>No no no. "Fairly"?? You're missing the point. Within 20 years we'll all be 
>>in electric cars anyway, yet the govt relies on motorists to prop up its 
>>finances. 
> 
> That's a good point.  It does suggest some thinking ahead by
> politicians, though, an unlikely thing.

It suggests that they are thinking of how to protect their tax if 
electricity ever comes to cars in a big way. Perhaps we then  have to 
have rural electricity like diesel?  A different colour electricity - 
that's thinking ahead.