Suprisingly 'ordinary' cars to pay ?25/day CC charge

[Kris]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7242445.stm

Seems 'gas-guzzlers' aren't all that are being targeted. Some pretty normal cars come under the new levy, all in the name of the environment.

Firstly, CO2 isn't the nasty gas that we're being told it is. Believe all the bullshit and lies if you want, it's your money.

WATCH THIS VID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCVQI-GI6Is

Anyway, seems the new stealth taxes are creeping ever closer without even a murmur...
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[NSR Mick]

I'm just going to avoid going into the zone like the plague using more fuel and creating more co2 in the process.
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[Keir]

ha ha mr livingstone, my year 2000 528 sport which emits over your threshold of co2 is staying at £8 per day as its pre 2001 (by 4 months!). Actually ive always wanted a 3.0d X5, maybe now is my time to buy a feb 2001 model...


suck my balls.
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[headlamp]

Volvo C90's and certain 4 wheel drive cars are also exempt due to their 'efficient engines'.

I think Ken should credit bike riders with say £3 when we drive in Central London for being 'good for the environment' and taking less space. Actually I'd settle for the right to ride in all bus lanes but that's another thread I guess!!
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[Kris]

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[MarJay]

Porsche are after a judicial review about the new congestion charge.
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[stinkwheel]

I have never been to London (except to change trains on the way to Sussex). I never intend to go to London.

By London I mean everything encompassed by the M25. I have used the M25 but only to get to Kent.

I feel more and more that I have made the correct decision in this respect and would encourage others to likewise boycott the place.
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[stinkwheel]

I could earn double what I do if I worked in London. It still remains an intensely unappealing prospect.
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[Skudd]

I always wondered why Red Ken was so against private cars until I read about his Alcahol Depedancy. The guy would never be sober enough to ever get behind the wheel of a car. So he doesn't care about those who actually need transport on a daily basis and keep themselves sober enough to drive.
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[JonB]

Yep I get that feeling as well.

Have had to travel to Reading down the M40 a lot recently and as you get closer and closer to London, usually past Oxford the traffic starts getting heavier, and the black night sky slowly changes to a putrid orange colour.

London just doesn't appeal, closest I'd wanna live would be somewhere on the M4 corridor I think.
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[Dom_]

My decat pipe is doing its bit for the environment.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Boris has dropped the £25 Kengestion rip off. Unfortunatly it has cost him £400k in court costs to Porsche (but Porsche are donating it to charity).

https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/08/london.boris

All the best

Keith
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[Kris]

[damz]

im actually finding hard to beleive but boris johnson is the only politician that is making sensible decisions

...... that just shouldnt happen, first of all he's a politician and also cause ... umm... well its boris johnson lol but so far he seems to be making decisions that helps people rather than raises funds.

hopefully he will keep up the good work, any word on the bus lanes yet?
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