Vehicle Excise Duty

 

This should be scrapped and replaced with a one-off ownership charge every time the vehicle is registered or changes hands.

Fuel duty however should be increased, so that we are encouraged to drive more fuel efficient cars. It would also mean that some of us would have decide to two vehicles; a small fuel-efficient car for everyday use and something perhaps larger or more special for occasional use.

I should declare an interest in that I own a fuel-efficient estate car and an immaculate eighteen year old Lotus Elan for sunny weather and special trips. It would be ridiculous if I had to pay a heavy road tax on a car like the Lotus which probably does about five hundred miles a year. Incidentally the Lotus is quite fuel efficient retuning nearly forty to the gallon, as the car is very light in weight, but it doesn’t have a catalytic convertor, so would probably be hammered by this so-called government.