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03/5/2015 at 12:17am
Location: Isle of Mull
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Ironic, isn't it? A few years back we're told to go diesel, now we're being told we're evil for doing so!
From reading various articles, it seems that the worst air pollution is in cities, so the answer would seem to be sort the transportation in cities out rather than sting everyone who has a diesel vehicle (as I suspect they will do) and probably rarely drives in a city.
We recently had a questionnaire sent out about electric cars and our attitudes to them. I would quite happily have a small electric car for local running about but it would be useless for the longer journeys I do (down Friday to England or way up north; provide safety cover on an event in the middle of nowhere and drive back the following Sunday morning) and it couldn't take my camping gear. Nor would it do for my Red Cross volunteering because the thing couldn't go off road. Ergo, I would need the Freelander for those purposes. That means insuring two cars, albeit one would be free of VED. It's not affordable.
In last 17 years had three Freelanders; first one was petrol but had so many faults, I ended up getting a brand new (also petrol) one in PX for £5K; paid for a dual fuel (LPG) conversion and that was okay but then it was written off in an accident. By that time we were into sky high fuel prices (over £1.40 a litre for petrol and £1.47 for diesel and we have a 5p/litre fuel duty derogation) and fuel consumption was a key factor in choosing a new to me car - a relatively low mileage diesel came up and it has really helped out. 14 mpg more than the petrol - even in the stop/go of single track roads in the tourist season and almost 20 mpg on main roads.
So, if VED rises so much on diesel what can I do but move away - you need a car to live here as public transport is severely limited - or give up things that are important to me and my son? If blanket taxes come in, then that's what a lot of us are going to have to think hard about.
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