Petition: Hold a public inquiry into the decision to incentivise diesel cars & its effects In 2001 the government decided to link car tax (VED) to CO2 emissions. In 2002 company car tax also became emissions-based. People were encouraged by such incentives to buy diesel cars, yet owners of even relatively new diesels now face draconian extra taxes, parking surcharges, even effective bans. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/228534
I've signed. If it gets 10,000 signatures the government has to respond, if 100,000 then: "Will a petition with 100,000 signatures automatically be debated? The Petitions Committee will take the threshold of 100,000 signatures as a starting point when it considers which petitions should be debated. But sometimes the Committee might not put forward a petition for debate if it’s got over 100,000 signatures – for example, if the same subject has recently been debated or if a debate is going to happen soon. If that’s the case, we’ll tell you how you can find out more about parliamentary debates on the issue raised by your petition." My personal view is it'll get 100,000+ and if it gets debated then they'll be all the guff about 'Global Warming' etc. and nothing will happen. So the net effect will be nil except to take some of their time that might be used to come up with another yet faddish idea.
I think the point is the government pushed plebs into buying diesels and are now punishing those exact users for doing so
Same will happen when they’ve forced people to go electric , bit like paper bags , are they growing enough trees. Get rid politicians sorted .
You may be right, but without trying, we never get anywhere. Maybe nothing changes, but maybe it does. Peaceful protest, standing up for what you believe. That’s the point.
The whole point of these petitions being brought in is to make people think that the government listen. So it has to be debated in parliament. Who has to attend? What time does it need to be debated? The answers are a) nobody and b) usually when everybody has gone home.
They weren't "pushed" by anyone. They bought diesels (myself included), because they do 55mpg or more. Presumably the "plebs" will be willing to give back any incentives they were offered. Really can't see the point. What outcome are you expecting? I can't think of one.
“Pushed” perhaps not, but incentivised in such a way that it was almost forced, everyone at the time knew it was tosh, now they’re reversing it and all the the name of ecology, I’m Sure a few high up people are making lots of dollar out of it , why not just ban commuting , no emissions then, pay everyone £500 a week to stay home, I can bet 10,s of thousands of people pass each other commuting to work the same jobs in the opposites hometown
If the goal now is to reduce the number of polluting diesels on the road by making it prohibitively expensive to run them is that a bad thing? I just don’t see the point of this petition. And I run a diesel, albeit in France.
I think the goal is to try and make the government shoulder some accountability and responsibility for WHY there are millions of diesels on the roads: They told people to buy them. People bought them. Now they’re penalising people for buying them.. It’s not rocket science.
