On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:57:51 -0500, "Li,Chanchun"
wrote:

Yeah, the British government is considering scrapping fuel tax and
replacing it with a new road charge based on the distance and
time motorists travel.
Sounds like the Socialist NeoComie Labour Government in Britain.

No, it sounds like a very sensible idea to all parties (I'm a member
of the right-wing UK Conservative party) when you consider that we
have:

* 50 million people with
* 30 million vehicles on an island only
* 700 miles long.

What's missing from the description is "congestion". The proposed
system is based on congestion, multiplied by distance and time
travelled.

Driving in crowded London (where there are busses every 3 minutes
anyway) will cost more.

Driving in my home county of Gloucestershire (a rural area, my village
has one bus per week - on Monday) will cost a lot less.

Currently of the 5 dollars a gallon of gas I pay, more than 3 dollars
of this is tax. I pay this tax even though I drive down empty rural
roads.

They want to change this so that I pay only 2 dollars a gallon for
gas, PLUS 2p per mile to drive down empty rural roads.

Sounds like a sensible right-wing tax-cutting winner to me!

Forget about gay and lesbians and start making a herd load of babies and you
wouldn't have an emigrant problem in Europa.

I quite agree. Wish me well with my marriage on Saturday! We're hoping
to have kids next year.

Us Europeans aren't all liberal urban homosexuals. Heck, dude, I live
next to a farm and have a rifle range in my back yard.

That's why the new road charge proposals are good; it stops punishing
good old-fashioned country folk like me and puts the burden of gas tax
back on the urban people where it belongs.

--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com