Scrap Road Tax & Charge Polluters
Green Party Principal Speaker , Caroline Lucas MEP, has condemned chancellor Alastair Darling’s decision to delay the planned increase in fuel duty for a second time.Dr Lucas argues that cutting fuel prices, increasing fuel consumption, can only deepen the looming crisis. Instead, Greens want the Road Tax scrapped, moving the responsibility onto fuel duty, a windfall tax on excess oil company profits, and an increase in public transport investment.
Dr Lucas said: “Once again, we’re being held hostage by the big energy companies, and are paying for it at the pump. Alastair Darling thinks subsidising higher fuel use will help, but that is exactly the thinking that caused the problem in the first place.”
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