UK Road Charginghttp://politics.blog.co.uk/en-UKhourly82000-01-01T12:00+00:00UK Road Charginghttp://politics.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/4a/d5033546b8acfe3270b0fd68b706b7_160x200.jpgUK Road Charginghttp://politics.blog.co.uk/2005/06/10/uk_road_charging/2005-06-10T06:08:47+02:00 <p>Since it is a politician who has said it is to prevent congestion then we can dismiss this as the reason for bringing this scheme. The simple answer is this is all about money. Toyota have a big selling hybrid car, a British company have developed a fuel cell driven motorbike, within the next ten years electric cars powered by fuel cells which can be charged up with hydrogen from a domestic generator unit will be on the road.</p> <p>If they know where your car is at all times then they will know where you park, they will also know the speed you are tavelling.</p> <p>I wonder if your monthly bill will include parking and speeding fines?</p> <p>Now for the practicalities it works on radio signals if I put silver paper over my GPS aerial it does not work, each unit will have to have a serial number which it transmits allocated against licence plate, buy a wreck register it at a flat then put it in for scrap and transfer the unit, where do they send the bills. What will happen if some one clones your number, who pays if your car is stolen?</p> <p>If there are 30 million cars on the road that means 30 million bills each month if you refuse to pay by direct debit and insist on paying by cheque thats 30 million cheques to be cashed each and every month. If they do it on a longer period then the dead will dodge the charges and there will be a big collection problem.</p> <p>The UK government makes £35billion from motoring taxation that revenue will be under serious threat from the fuel cell powered car and to a lesser extent the hybrid car.</p> <p>So the real reason for introducing the scheme is to ensure that the motorist is ripped off even when his/her car goes green.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://politics.blog.co.uk/2005/06/10/uk_road_charging/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>Since it is a politician who has said it is to prevent congestion then we can dismiss this as the reason for bringing this scheme. The simple answer is this is all about money. Toyota have a big selling hybrid car, a British company have developed a fuel cell driven motorbike, within the next ten years electric cars powered by fuel cells which can be charged up with hydrogen from a domestic generator unit will be on the road.

If they know where your car is at all times then they will know where you park, they will also know the speed you are tavelling.

I wonder if your monthly bill will include parking and speeding fines?

Now for the practicalities it works on radio signals if I put silver paper over my GPS aerial it does not work, each unit will have to have a serial number which it transmits allocated against licence plate, buy a wreck register it at a flat then put it in for scrap and transfer the unit, where do they send the bills. What will happen if some one clones your number, who pays if your car is stolen?

If there are 30 million cars on the road that means 30 million bills each month if you refuse to pay by direct debit and insist on paying by cheque thats 30 million cheques to be cashed each and every month. If they do it on a longer period then the dead will dodge the charges and there will be a big collection problem.

The UK government makes £35billion from motoring taxation that revenue will be under serious threat from the fuel cell powered car and to a lesser extent the hybrid car.

So the real reason for introducing the scheme is to ensure that the motorist is ripped off even when his/her car goes green.

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