Quote Originally Posted by dergside View Post
A Carbon Tax of €80 per ton of CO2 equates to around €0.17 per litre on petrol I think I heard someone say yesterday, and that's just a starting point.
When you put it that way, it doesn't actually sound that bad (assuming today's rate equates to around €0.425 per litre).

One thing I'm interested in is the effect these changes will have on the existing second hand car market (from the point of view of a potential buyer in the short term). Will this accelerate depreciation of petrol/diesel cars over the next couple of years on the basis that they will become more expensive to run and therefore less desirable to the majority of people? Or in the case of performance cars will it have the opposite effect and drive prices up on the basis these cars will start to get rarer and rarer from now on?