Quote Originally Posted by dergside View Post
A perfect example of both the danger of it and the effect of it is the change in tax policy around VRT in 2008 when it changed to CO2 based charging instead of CC based.
The big difference between now & 2008 was that taxes were drastically reduced for those who bought low CO2 emmitting cars. There's no carrot approach here anymore, only the stick approach.

If they were serious about drastically reducing CO2 & NOx then electric cars should have zero VAT & VRT and zero Road Tax. People would move then I can assure you when they would be far cheaper than an equivalent ICE car !

The net cost to the exchequer would be neglidgible owing to reducing EU fines for exceeding our environmantal targets.