Auris Hybrid Road tax £125+ in 2025?

[Cyker]

I preferred the balance we had before they started selling off all the infrastructure - I like having an NHS, not having to pay to send kids to school, toll roads being the exception rather than the rule, not having to pay for rubbish collection etc..

As others have said, I don't mind paying taxes when I can see it being put to good use. Unfortunately I've not been seeing that for some time, and it particularly irks me that we're effectively paying these idiots to give themselves payrises while sending what little public infrastructure we have left down the tubes.

Maybe Labour will turn that around, as they're supposed to be better for public sector stuff, but I can only hope they will do so without also wrecking the private sector stuff that works in the process.

 

[Red_Corolla]

41 minutes ago, TonyHSD said:

I actually like sociclalism or even communist regimes, I wouldn’t mind if the only cars we can buy are Corolla’s , like back in te days were lada’s in the ex soviet countries 🧑🏻‍🔧🛠🧰

judt kidding 😅

I don’t understand politics and don’t care about it. 👍

I've got a Trabant with your name on it, comrade Tony! 😂

[TonyHSD]

27 minutes ago, Red_Corolla said:

I've got a Trabant with your name on it, comrade Tony! 😂

Hahaha 

how did you got me about the Trabant 👌😅

That was my grandfather’s car bought new and then passed into my dad. 24 years in the same family and then sold to someone else for another few years to be in the road. 😊

[mpm235]

3 hours ago, Rhymes with Paris said:

Wait until we get 1970s style power cuts, this time not due to miners strikes, but the lemming rush to unachievable net zero.

Still, it will hopefully reduce the purported less than 2% of global emissions that the UK produces.

And we can keep buying plastic tat produced in China with cheap power from coal fired power stations.

 

Agree completely. Net Zero in insane

[mpm235]

4 hours ago, Paul john said:

Probbly not announced until october budget so dont panic or speculate in August 

I reckon it is inevitable. I will eat my pants if they don't. Socialists, can't help it, they just have to tax, tax, tax.....they would tax farts if they could find a way to do it.

[yossarian247]

14 hours ago, Rhymes with Paris said:

Wait until we get 1970s style power cuts, this time not due to miners strikes, but the lemming rush to unachievable net zero.

Still, it will hopefully reduce the purported less than 2% of global emissions that the UK produces.

And we can keep buying plastic tat produced in China with cheap power from coal fired power stations.

 

Less than that, the UK now produces about 1% of the total man made CO2 emissions and also has about 1% of the World's population, which seems fair enough to me. The attached graph illustrates just how futile the UK achieving net zero would be:

[MC1216]

2 minutes ago, yossarian247 said:

Less than that, the UK now produces about 1% of the total man made CO2 emissions and also has about 1% of the World's population, which seems fair enough to me. The attached graph illustrates just how futile the UK achieving net zero would be:

Totally agree and transport is only responsible for 30% of that 1 % .

China must be laughing at us.

[mpm235]

3 hours ago, MC1216 said:

Totally agree and transport is only responsible for 30% of that 1 % .

China must be laughing at us.

Before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide, as a percentage of atmospheric gasses was 0.03%. Now it is 0.04%. Yes, really, an increase of 0.01%, and a lot of that is from volcanic activity, not just fossil fuel. The Net Zero, Eco-zealot suff is absolute cods wallop.

[Cyker]

It depends how you measure it - In terms of concentration, supposedly it was 200-something ppm before the industrial revolution, but is 400-something ppm now.

It's definitely going up faster than can be accounted for by natural means.

We're definitely getting all the stick though, disproportionately targeted and penalized instead of them going after the major sources of CO2, i.e. industry.

It's one of the things that really annoys me about current vehicle policy - They are encouraging people to scrap *existing perfectly functioning* vehicles, which have already had the majority of their CO2 footprint behind them, and buy *new* ones adding more CO2 footprint!

It's like the people making these decisions don't understand that those new ones have to be made from new or recycled materials, which had to be dug up and/or refined; All using energy and producing CO2, and in the case of EVs, large new factories and infrastructure had to be built- The giga Battery factory Tesla's built in germany required large swaths of forest to be cut down and concrete, one of the biggest sources of industrial CO2, poured to make it. The resources and emissions that went into making all of that will not be off-set by the CO2 saving of the EVs that it enables the construction of, vs an equivalent number of 15-year old ICE car in a normal human's lifetime.

 

[TonyHSD]

So driving through London this morning seen a few untaxed cars with wheel clamp on. I remembered myself that my car might need to be taxed, and I run a quick check which shows  untaxed , why I always forget to do that 🙃😅®️
Anyway, I bought a tax and guess, it’s £0 for a year. No change at all. 
Best car ever 🙂👌

[FROSTYBALLS]

1 minute ago, TonyHSD said:

Anyway, I bought a tax and guess, it’s £0 for a year. No change at all.

However, the changes to VED that we know about (possibly due to change in the budget) aren't coming into effect until April 2025.

[Wooster]

46 minutes ago, TonyHSD said:

why I always forget to do that...

You can set up an account with the DVLA and received text / email reminders about your tax and MOT. gov.uk/driver-vehicles-account

 

[AisinW]

China still use coals and gas as much as they want. Don't make the same mistakes as Germany and Denmark that destroy the economy from higher cost of Green Energy. 

Since 2010 trillion of money was invested in Green Energy, shutdown well run Nuclear Plants and Germany lower the Fosil fuel from 79.6% to 79.3% in 10 years. What a BS Green Party movements and cripple German economy. 

Fortunately, I still only pay 32€ yearly for tax on hybrids. Newer Corolla got higher tax, about 56€.