
By Jo Best
Published: Thursday 09 June 2005
What I want to know is; who is going pay for all t...
Stuart Millard
It is very strange that the party that claims to r...
Anonymous
Congestion or Pollution - which is the issue?
I...
Miles Gaynor
Another badly thought out knee jerk reaction by a ...
Ruth
People who are stuggling already won't be going ou...
Anonymous
Never mind the technology and project complexity -...
Stephen Scott
Oh dear, what a mess, another tax for the general ...
Paul Wilson
This has nothing to do with easing congestion and ...
Ken Hall
Mr Darling wants to charge £1.34 for each mile on ...
Brian Chappell
Feet first & eyes tightly shut ...
Whilst the c...
Peter Lewis
So, let me get this right...
We're expected to ...
Anonymous
So we have our biometric data tracked by the gover...
Anonymous
Alistair Darling (old Black Adder joke) we already...
Nick Gray
As usual this will penalise rural people. I travel...
Anonymous
The whole concept is crazy.....typical government ...
Tony Page
This scheme is so clearly designed to make the roa...
greta smalley
Yet another exercise in wasting time and money. Ha...
John Beardon
If the objective is to raise money, reduce congest...
Badg Champion
Honestly have this government lost it.
We are a n...
David Edisbury
Ah well, we're all going to have dig deep in our p...
Anonymous
..and how long after implementation will the first...
Col
What a totally ridiculous concept and abuse of tec...
Martyn Witt
Hmmm RFID tags, so that in 2010 stores will be abl...
Anonymous
Terrifying!!!!!
Where will this Government's lo...
Crispin Driver
This makes the ID Card proposal look sane.
They...
Neil Postlethwaite
This again is nothing to do with taxing cars or co...
Duane S Phillips
Oh god, it is all going to go horribly wrong. I ju...
Richard A
I cannot believe that a scheme like this will be a...
Michael Green
Why they have to go to such high tech, Big Brother...
Brian Burkill
It will still only sting the innocent motorist.. T...
Anonymous
That is almost a stupid question. Governments ALWA...
Charles Wood
Congestion or polution? Well niether! If you want ...
Charles Wood
We're already paying per mile for using the roads ...
Bob Brennan
Terrific idea darling - but what about security?
...
Graham Coles
Great idea!
We need to become less reliant on o...
Anonymous
45 Kilometer errors won't cause problems then?
On...
Roger Huffadine
I hope that if they go ahead with this scheme it d...
Anne Daniels
Yet another ill-thought and expensive idea. First ...
Anonymous
A brilliant idea. I can't see why people are so ag...
Warren Swaine
I did not vote for the corupt bunch of money grabb...
Anonymous
Surely the simplest and most efficient way of impo...
Anonymous
Two points.
1) So this scheme will 'replace' fuel...
Anonymous
They'll never be able to resist using this to enfo...
Anonymous
So we are now tracking cars by GPS.Is this really ...
Anonymous
Well.
23 million cars will need fitting with GPS...
Chris Withall
Only acceptable on a tax basis if they remove fuel...
Brian Catt
According to the Financial Times (7th June) Norwic...
Anonymous
Easier and cheaper way to stop people using their ...
Anonymous
Don't worry, the powerful oil and motor industries...
Anonymous
The great thing about fuel duty, well from the gov...
Anonymous
The UK it seems to me is a test site for new techn...
Anonymous
I think just about everyone is missing the point ....
Neil
Much more sensible than the ID cards proposal - re...
Dave Leslie
Well.
23 million cars will need fitting with GPS...
Chris Withall
If there is such a groundswell of repulsion agains...
Ruth
An invitation to enhance congestion on minor (chea...
Dudley Lewis
surely british people are going to,at some time sa...
cant say
Well, who is really to blame for giving these amat...
Anonymous
Mobile Poll Tax: One, this idea is a civil liberti...
Kimi
A sensible government would'nt be wasting our tax ...
Anonymous
Soooo...when I sneak out with a small faraday cage...
Anonymous
Alistair, Darling.....
such incompetence wouldn't...
Anonymous
Bunkum
People in traffic jams already pay more ...
Anonymous
Well, I personally have give up blaming the govern...
Had enough of this country
I am a nurse and my journey to and from work is a ...
Sue
What a good idea! The country will be able to sell...
Anonymous
How soon will it be before your mileage bill will ...
Anonymous
We already have a pay as you drive tax. It's the p...
Anonymous
Reading through the reader comments on this debate...
Jane
Fuel Tax will do this now with just minor changes,...
Anonymous
It's worth a pilot study which can be voluntary, w...
Mike
I have lived in several countries of the world whe...
Adrian Jenkyn
It would be easy to just shrug and say "it'll neve...
Simon
Drivers already pay-per-mile by virtue of the obsc...
Anonymous
Would investment in Public Transport not be better...
mark Langdown
Doing this, i.e. makng us pay to travel could be ...
K.S. Doctorate in Human Rights
Do we not already pay per mile? - it is called fue...
Anonymous
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