On Mon, 5 May 2003, at around 07:31:12 local time, Mark Hooper
<mhooper@pix-cinema.com> wrote:
>Correct me if I am wrong, but Great Britain is an oil exporter right? In
>Canada we too are an exporter and being ripped off by 110% taxation on fuel.
>It's supposedly for road maintenance (an acceptable reason), but only about
>5% goes into roads (not acceptable considering their state). Even so we have
>50% of your population, much much harsher winters and a hell of a lot more
>road/capita to maintain. Yet you are paying three times our rate. What
>gives?
An environmentally-friendly taxation regime. The idea is to make it
too expensive for anyone to use their cars, and make them use bicycles,
buses or trains instead.
ATB
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Mike
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