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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
There will also be a £30 billion shortfall in fuel duty.
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If only the UK could join a trading bloc like everyone else seems to want to - that would be a real boost to the economy rather than, say, leaving one which to date is reckoned to be around £200 billion.
In reality the cost of the roads will get picked up by someone and who better than the people that are using them thereby linking damage to the actual useage. That way a heavy goods vehicle that does 100,000 miles a year pays more one doing 20,000 miles and a car doing 10,000 miles pays more than a motorcycle doing the same mileage. Radical I know, but it may just work. Well until the road transport lobby start whining - the answer to whom should be "you want to keep your costs down, well plan to be efficient and don't drive as far".
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