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@dark_castle1 wrote:

What you want then is say, someone on minimum wage that has to travel lets say 35 miles each way to work and back because there is no work in their area or maybe a retired couple on a state pension living in a rural area and have to travel say 20 miles each way for a supermarket or doctors etc and have a small car just to keep the cost down should pay more to use the roads than say someone on £50,000 a year with a big car and only travels 10 miles a day to and from work.

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That's not what I want at all, I was just giving my opinion. I was thinking more along the lines of heavy goods vehicles which you have to admit do the highest mileage and subsequently cause the majority of the wear and tear on our roads.

I can't think of a fairer way of distributing the cost of maintaining our road network. The cost of travel has to be directly proportional to the amount of miles you travel, which is exactly the way things are if you use public transport. If tax was added to fuel I think a lot of people would consider buying more economic vehicles which would be an added bonus for the environment too.

What would be your alternative? Having people paying different prices for fuel depending on their personal circumstances? I don't see how that would work.