I hear Gordon Brown and his aides are likely to be putting up 4x4 road tax today. Good but not good enough.
The chances of them putting up the tax beyond the cost of a tank of fuel is unlikely I think. Even if it goes up to £200 its not enough to stop people, who must put £200 of fuel in those things per week, buying another 4x4.
The cost of a tax disc should be prohibitive or at least considerable, such as several thousand pounds per year especially if the vehicle is registered in the city.
I live on a housing estate full of chip shop and restaurant owners and they all have huge big 4x4s. They dont need them and they bought them purely because its the 'in' thing at the moment (a few years ago they all have convertables). I think they think they are making a 'lifestyle statement.' If they were intelligent people they might have realised that they just make themselves look selfish, which they might not care about, and like sheep, which they would care about but given the fact they cook food for a living they are too thick to realise. I love my neighbours .
My point being that I dont think these hardcore morons, who need their 4x4s because they have nothing else to fulfill their esteem needs with, will just pay the price and maybe welcome it because it makes owning a 4x4 a more expensive and consequently exclusive and indicative of their wealth.
Afterall I think the nobel prize team this year are giving out 4x4s to the winners.
The chances of them putting up the tax beyond the cost of a tank of fuel is unlikely I think. Even if it goes up to £200 its not enough to stop people, who must put £200 of fuel in those things per week, buying another 4x4.
The cost of a tax disc should be prohibitive or at least considerable, such as several thousand pounds per year especially if the vehicle is registered in the city.
I live on a housing estate full of chip shop and restaurant owners and they all have huge big 4x4s. They dont need them and they bought them purely because its the 'in' thing at the moment (a few years ago they all have convertables). I think they think they are making a 'lifestyle statement.' If they were intelligent people they might have realised that they just make themselves look selfish, which they might not care about, and like sheep, which they would care about but given the fact they cook food for a living they are too thick to realise. I love my neighbours .
My point being that I dont think these hardcore morons, who need their 4x4s because they have nothing else to fulfill their esteem needs with, will just pay the price and maybe welcome it because it makes owning a 4x4 a more expensive and consequently exclusive and indicative of their wealth.
Afterall I think the nobel prize team this year are giving out 4x4s to the winners.