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| DavidA:
Nope, It all goes into one big pot. So, what is the shape of things to come ? I suspect that the price of Diesel, already on the increase, will get exorbitantly high in the next five year. If you have a diesel car then the emission tests will get tougher. New Diesels will gradually be phased out and the tax on your old one will get higher. The glory days of fuel economy are over. Prepare to return to 35 mpg. Bullet proof reliability, half a million miles engine life, is out, damp spark ignition systems are back in. But if you keep your Diesel and run it on bio then you may just be able to buck the system. Bio bootleggers will pick on their banjos whilst watching the kettles boil. All together now... Daddy ran his bio in a big black Dodge. Bought it in an auction at the mason's lodge. Dave :thumbup: |
| smiffy:
I thought with Exhaust gas recirculation, particle filters and the use of Ad blu was going to make Euro 5 and 6 series engines less polluting than petrol engines ,or is this going to be another excuse to make us pay even more tax .Mike |
| DavidA:
Mike, The latter. It always works that way. :( Moving the topic on. Anyone for electric cars ? Or the half way house of petrol/electric hybrids. Prius etc ? Anybody got one ? Dave. |
| Bluechip:
Not got one but had a test drive in a Mitzi Outlander PHEV .... Cannot see what that things all about, battery range some 18-20 miles ... then back to petrol ??? WTF ????? No wonder there is/was a £5000 bribe to buy one of the contraptions. £50k and I might have been tempted ... :wave: Dave |
| Swarfing:
I have to scoff slightly at electric cars, great as cheap to run but the electricity still has to be made somewhere down the line, and it still cost the environment. I'm sure we are all aware by now the need to produce clean energy argument, yadda yadda yadda so no debate there. But clean energy is not everywhere yet so green electric cars are still not really green until all the electrickery in the first place is green....right? or wrong? Just fed up of governments playing green poker. Same with tax on cigarettes is the same on oil. Until it all stops we are still dicking around in a babbling brook and governments grabbing as much tax as they can until the bitter end.........greasy palms and all that I will now get off my soapbox, put down the wine glass and go to bed...sigh! |
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