Should 'gas guzzlers' pay more for parking?
I think it would be better, as it may deter some people from purchasing more polluting vehicles
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No why should they - they already pay extra for the fuel.. This is enough of a nanny state without being told what car you can or cant have. When a bigger effort is made by the likes of packaging companies to reduce pollution from plastics etc. then maybe people will take the whole thing seriously.
err no i think the company that makes the cars should! ppl are going to buy something when its available to them! so stop making them! then there wouldnt be this problem!! ?
not for parking but a much higher car tax and they should also cost alot more to buy with any extras going to ways to improve the enviroment
YES! us poor little Puntos don't get a sniff.
No, you are paying for the space not anything else. Just because a car uses more gas then another doesn't affect a parking spot. The car isnt running while its parked
no pay more to register already not size now
I think we should get all of the little rattling cars off the roads, as they keep getting caught in my 4x4s gas guzzling mud guards, and I keep having to pick them out.
If they can afford to buy and run them, the yes. Most are bought for the status symbol reason.
no way, they already pay for the gas that goes in their guzzler, thats enough!!
bit of an easy target, a real no-brainer for the council instead of sorting its budget out (not being used to raise revenue- do me a favour). I hate the big 4x4`s turning up at the school with one lazy kid in it, however the government had the opportunity to slam with car tax hike, and bottled it (scared of upsetting potential voters)
no. they are noy gas guzzling while parked
Well i drive a 4x4 mitsubishi pajero 2.5 td which is classed as a gas guzzler, but let me tell you, i use less diesel for the mileage i do as appossed to the suzuki escudo and the mercedes 190 i had not long ago and the emissions are a lot lower too..150 on the emissions which is very low. I think the most fair way would be to up petrol prices and abolish road tax like other european countries. The government would get a lot more revenue that way than penalising people for the cars they use. Some people have to use these types of cars..look at farmers and combined harvesters and tractors that have to use the roads also, is the government going to charge them more for driving what they see as gas guzzlers.??
no. because even though there are alot of idiots out there who drive huge vehicles unnecessarily, there are some of us who have no choice, and we are already paying more for gas. i drive a mini van because i have 3 kids and if i didn't we would never be able to have any of their friends over, because there would be no room for anybody else. plus i use it to carpool which keeps extra vehicles off the road.
No they shouldn't as they are not using fuel when they are parked up, in fact they should pay less for parking as they pay more for fuel. This is only a way for that git Brown to raise more stealth tax and nothing to do with being green.
my gas guzzler has just been filled with asda's finest veg oil, at half the price cost of the petrol pumps,and to save the enviroment. so that should compensate for the extra parking charges, or i might just let some lower life-form car pay their parking fee, and plonk my beast on top!! ha ha!!
the next time your little piece of crap car breaks down, i will make sure my tow strap never leaves the inside of my truck, to pull your sorry little car home!!! but i will run your car over if it is in my way lol!! by the way some people who have life's need bigger vehicles. if you have a big huge boat or a trailer you need to pull on a regular basis then your little 4 banger isn't going to cut it
no as they already pay more for fuel and road tax and this is not a fair schem for local buiseness who rely on this kind of transport what could be a bit more fair is charging gas guzzlers by how many miles they do
What we've to remember is that 'gas guzzlers' can include mumsy family buses, such as the Ford Galaxy, as well as the likes of the Range Rover V8.
It's all very nice and well telling us all to buy little shopping cars, but some pople do have kids, and luggage, and keep finding that those new speed humps keep wrecking the suspension on the cheap shopping trolley.
Also, if you have a so-called 'child murdering, seal slaughtering gas guzzler' you're already paying more in fuel tax and road tax anyway.
Whatever way you look at 'global warming' I have my doubts over the green lobby temselves. Sawpping our horses for cars over the last century or so has done wonders for health, as there's no horse excrement spreading diseases now. Friends of the Earth never tell you that. Nor will they tell you that you can buy a Ford Fiesta nowadays that pollutes 20 times less than the Fiesta you bought 20 or so years ago, or that unleaded fuel and catalytic converters give us better air quality. They'll never tell you that the ozone layer hole is shrinking, either.
And has anyone else notice that while the eco-lot will moan and moan that we're slaughtering the planet, they'll never, ever acknowedge any improvements.
In reality. anti-4x4ism is really driven by politics and envy, with policies drawn-up by those tho don't live in the same world as you and me. This is also a good golden egg for the politicans too, a good money maker for them, as if the motorist in general wasn't enough of an easy mugging target.
its nothing to do with environment or emissions! its all about the labour party's age old begrugment of people who work hard so that they buy nice things. on top of that they finished what they started in the 70s by killing what industry's we had left, and they got wars to fund! so welcome to this governments new income.motorists!
my mother drives a 1.4 leter Astra from 1994
My father drives a 2 leter Land Rover 4 *4
I drive a 2.5 Leter MG
My mothers car is the worst for the environment! it does 40 miles to the gallon and has a dirty old engine with a primitive catalater converter!
Second is mine doing 30 MPG with a modern clean engine
The best by far is my fathers 4*4 delivering close to 50 MPG with a modern clean engine!!
people need to look into things and get presented the facts befor they go on a 4*4 whitch hunt!
Well you are already paying quite a bit out on road tax, insurance, mot, why should you have to pay more.
NO as it is against our human rights and it's also discrimination against the car driver, after all we pay 80% tax on fuel so we are already paying more tax than regular cars, plus our Road Tax is around £30 more per six months so what else do the gov want BLOOD
Make em pay!!, you don't need a 4*4 on the road, Farmers,construction companies with a legit use. fair enough. But some daft cow or little dik driving some chelsea tractor TAX EM!!
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