Snuggs
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 posted on 30/3/07 at 10:07 AM |
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Another petition to support !
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/oldcars/
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http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/snuggstcb
Spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does.
I doubt therefore I may be.
Luposlipophobia : Fear of being chased by wolves around a freshly waxed kitchen floor, while wearing only socks on your feet.
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!
http://www.venganza.org
http://www.jesusandmo.net/
http://www.snuggs.co.uk
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coozer
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 10:22 AM |
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Whats that about? There isn't any restrictions on old cars is there?
Up here there is a natural process to the destruction of cars, rust.
I'll sign up if Tony is going to help stop the rust!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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smart51
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 10:32 AM |
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It is environmentally more sound to drive (and maintain) an old car than to scrap it and buy a new one. Making a new car produces more pollution than
40 years of driving it. Extending the life of a car is an ecological sound thing to do.
New cars meet tighter limits on the percentage of certain toxins in the exhaust gasses but the total volume of exhaust gas hasn't changed by
much over several years. New cars are not the paragons of virtue that some would have you believe.
Some head-in-the-sand type environmentallists say that cars should be scrapped when they get to 10 years old. That is the kind of unresearched
ignorance that gives environmentalists a bad name. Promoting the use of old cars is therefore a good thing, except that this patition doesn't
explain that.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 10:43 AM |
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I think any car over the age of 20 should pay no tax at all and those over 10 years should pay half.
We have a through away culture and scrap cars are just another form of waste.
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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jonbeedle
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 11:49 AM |
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If we bring the government's attention to the use of old cars everyone will jump on the band wagon and old classics will be subject to the same
taxes and restrictions currently imposed on newer vehicles. Best keep quiet, otherwise some "no good-interfering-do gooder-know nothing"
prat of a government minister will start calling for a ban on old vehicles due to emmissions and safety!
"Everyone is entitled to an opinion however stupid!"
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wilkingj
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 01:02 PM |
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Thats exactly what happend.
We campaigned to move the Free road tax on cars built before 1937 (I think) to a 25 year rolling date so as new classic cars fell into that bracket
they would be tax Exempt.
We got that fixed. Best thing the Tories ever did.
Labour won the next election, and in their very first budget, changed it from a rolling date to a fixed date again. Anything BUILT one or before 31
Dec 1972 would be tax Exempt. Thats Built, and not registered.
Good 'ol Tony... Some Say...
My old Landrover missed it by 5 months grrr.
They will more likley do it with stricter MoT's and the like.
it just P**ses me off big time.
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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jonbeedle
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| posted on 30/3/07 at 05:37 PM |
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Halleluja Geoff! Don't give the barstewards any more ammo!
"Everyone is entitled to an opinion however stupid!"
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