Start with air travel
There are now proposals to tax vehicle drivers even more than just the 80% of tax duty they pay on their fuel, any ULEZ cash cow 'congestion charge' to now 'possibly' encompass a new tax on tyre and brake particles debris from the vehicle.
Given that in cities, London for example, the traffic speed is probably averaging around 11mph if you are lucky when there aren't eco pillocks gluing themselves to the road or walking slowly in front of traffic, then you'd be lucky to generate any serious amount of either brake or tyre wear debris particles as you pass through the ville.
As Halfords have rightly advised, the cost of living might mean people neglecting to replace worn tyre and brake parts due to the cost issue, heaping more tax on these and other users is just little more than window dressing. And not making the roads safer.
A jet airliner can generate the same amount of emissions during takeoff and climb to altitude (10 minutes at most) as a family car would produce in 10 years, yes that's right, 10 years of average motoring about 75,000 miles worth.
So the elephant in the room is literally the elephant in the sky, with most air travel being holiday traffic and largely unnecessary - including shipping Green Beans grown in Africa to Britain as examples.
The airlines especially upon takeoff are burning thousands of litres a minute to get into the air and that is dropping back down over the UK. Nice and green?
However, unless China puts some more effort in reducing their output, we here are wasting our time and hobbling ourselves and our economy and standard of living, just to placate and indulge anyone who wants to impose taxes as the whim takes them.
And worst of all, electric vehicles being heavier due to their battery weight wear their tyres out quicker than their petrol and diesel equivalents and contribute to the tyre particle debris situation.
Green isn't it?
Don't forget though that those tyres are made up of fossil derived Oil.
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