A different slant on Petrol (UK Petrol Prices)

Name: man_of_tomorrow

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Product:	UK Petrol Prices
Date:	01/07/00 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: Fairer

Disadvantages: Needs to be accountable

I, like most people in the UK, hate the high petrol pices that we have to pay. However I would like to take a moment of your time to but across a different view that should be considered.

Firstly I would like the goverment to publish the actual cost of maintaining the UK highways and let's actually see how much we as drivers need to pay.

Secondly the cost when assetained should not be gathered by road tax and petrol tax but I feel should be gathered solely from taxation of petrol. The logic behind this is that those who use the roads more pay more and would also encourage us to use more effecient cars and take less journeys.

So if we are all shouting about petrol costs let's force the issue and make the whole taxation of cars fairer.

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