Glad to see that Mr. Brown has targeted gas guzzling 4×4s in the 2006 budget. Those who know me know how I loathe the road hogging bohemoths, with their diminuitive drivers boosting their egos as much as their height with vehicles that pollute the landscape as much as the air with their enormous engines ticking away outside schools and in Sainsbury’s car parks.
However I doubt that the additional duty is enough to discourage their use. Really we should go further to penalise people where it really hurts - stick a higher level of tax on them as company cars and quadruple the duty on tyres for them. It amazes me that people want bigger, less economical cars in a time where the climate change is noticeable to even the most ignorant of people, and yet they think more about their own perceived social status than the desolate wasteland of a legacy that we leave to our descendants, and the 4×4 for me is a symbol of all that is wrong in our society.
Grr over. Sorry I came over all Daily Mail then.
