Quote Originally Posted by kdevitt View Post
No NCTs will be provided for petrol / diesel car after 2045. Its a good way off - so who knows what will have happened by then. Maybe someone will crack the hydrogen fuel cell and we can continue to drive our cars and just emit water!
It's a long way off for sure until they completely ban them, but my fear in the short term is they could very quickly cease to be viable through taxation, particularly in this country where we already pay such a high premium to run a car. For example if you lived in the UK where it costs £20 a year to tax a diesel car in the lowest band, or £500 a year to tax an e92 M3, then increases in taxation or the cost of fuel, etc. of the type that are coming down the tracks here would be a lot easier to swallow.

Of course we could also seek to offset the burden of this somewhat by decreasing income tax and abolishing USC, etc. but the chances of that are virtually zero now the government pretty much has a carte blanche to tax us into oblivion as a result of this climate emergency. Unfortunately as is always the way with socialist big government, if the options to incentivise something (such as EVs) are to either decrease the cost of that thing or to increase the cost of everything else, the latter will tend to prevail (which aligns with the stated objective of this plan is to "force" private motorists off the road).