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@evoman3957 wrote:

I just know how people react, when the the price of fuel goes up just 5p a litre or so..........13p per litre or 59p per gallon, would send a lot of people into meltdown. Although I have 2 Cars, one £30 per year tax and the other £240 per year tax; I could handle that kind of increase. However, if I was not so well off and my Car was "Crucial" to me, for various reasons, that kind of added expenditure could be the straw the broke the Camels Back. Add to that the fact that if I had a Car that was rated in a low Tax bracket, or even Zero Tax rated, if I was then hit by an increase in fuel duty of 59p per gallon ( to subsidize those with Cars in a high Tax bracket , or those that didn't pay ) I would be slightly miffed to say the least. It goes without saying, that you don't see many people that are ranked among the lower paid; cruising around in Cars under 3 years old.  In fact, most struggle to keep the Car they have got on the road and obviously the older they are ( Cars that is ) ;the more often things go wrong ( well actually that applies to both Cars and People ). It cost the same to repair their car ( labour ) as it does anybody else's ( so no help from the state or anybody else there ). Lower paid people also don't have the luxury of being able to buy "electric" or "hybrid" vehicles, which I'm sure they would love to have; just for the reduced running costs alone. So, I just think that if you want create another idea, that appears reasonable to some, but in fact ends up penalising those in society that can least afford it; increasing the fuel duty, to replace the road tax ,will do just that.

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I thought the idea of taxing fuel as opposed to taxing vehicles would appeal to people like yourself who have more than one car. You can only drive one car at a time so you only pay tax when you're actually driving. Better I would have thought than taxing 2 vehicles 365 days a year, it has to be a saving for you surely.