Japan won't let go of ice engine

techman1

I think the backlash is coming though against all this "green transition" stuff , people just won't accept the price rises and inflation associated with it. The powers that be made a big mistake by going with the over pessimistic prognosis and signing up these draconian cutbacks in CO2. Its simply not going to happen anyway, just because a politician says something or makes a new law does not make it a reality . Most politicians and media heads are not technologists and don't understand energy, they cannot legislate for energy it doesn't work like that

Well the Hauliers, farmers etc were out today and it all fell on deaf ears, I hear the Dail today when Mary Lou challenge Michael Martin and the brazenness of his reply "can't reduce Carbon tax because we have to save the earth" "cant' reduce the VAT because the E.U won't allow it" so they use Climate change when it suits them to protect this lucrative revenue collection and what good are they if they can't do anything for the people except inject them ? lol, They're insane.

CoBo55

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118218711#Comment_118218711

What he said was he can't make anything zero percent vat conveniently forgetting he could drop it to 5%

JPup

What are you suggesting they drop VAT on?

Orebro

My God there is some serious conspiracy theory stuff on this thread, kind of shocked at some of the comments by regular users tbh!

CoBo55

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118231016#Comment_118231016

Sinn Fein were proposing the government drop the Vat rate on energy bills.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118234746#Comment_118234746

I'm not sure if reducing the amount of tax receipts is the smartest thing to do in an era of unprecedented spending

Furze99

Said it before and will say it again: all motorised transport has carbon costs built in. Both in manufacturing and source/ production of fuels.

Which raises the question that we need carbon taxes on EVs.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118235141#Comment_118235141

They are coming

Current proposals vary between

1. Tax by distance travelled

2. Tax by weight

In addition

1. Congestion charges (Dublin & Cork)

2. Workplace parking levy (Trail coming for Galway)

3. Emission controlled zones. Note this also includes particulate matter released by tires and brakes so will apply to a lesser extent to EV's also

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118235611#Comment_118235611

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47715415

All new EU (and UK) cars will have mandatory GPS so congestion charging , road usage charging weighted for busier times will be trivial to implement since Germany has been using GPS charging for trucks for a while now. On-board unit Toll Collect - on-board unit (GPS + GSM) with Toll Collect account

Mickeroo

Deleted all the off topic stuff from the last couple of days. Keeping track of reported posts is hard since the change over so local mods might not have seen the **** show the thread was devolving into.

@[Deleted User] there is a conspiracy theory forum for that sort of stuff, if you would like to keep using the EV forum keep that kind of thing out of it in future.