The level of taxation on motoring etc is becoming a serious economic inhibitor and certainly punishing disproportionately the poor in our society and now a major continuing influence on all elements of our daily cost of living and its upward inflationary spiral, it touches everything from the basics of life eg transportation cost and resultant food prices.
I wouldn't mind so much but not only have many of the main arterial roads and motorways mostly been built in my lifetime and out of my taxes paid over the last 50 odd years and I am still continuing to still pay taxes, they are considering charging me again for the pleasure of using the same roads I previously helped finance to build.
What a screwed up world we have and with the likes of Russia now signing deals with China and Pakistan for Russian gas which will be diverted from supplying Europe, we are in for a whole lot of unnecessary pain had we been mature enough to recognise that we need to balance the impact and future sustainability on the economies of both producers and consumers of fossil fuels......rather than the half arsed uncoordinated solutions with individual national token reductions in global emissions, that do not recognise the impact on the producers or on future fossil fuels prices and assuring continuing supply lines for fossil fuel consumers economies whilst we try to ween ourselves off fossil fuels.
A storm is coming, and the UK has neither energy or food security in this perfect meltdown that is just around the corner, the brunt of which will be borne disproportionately by the world's poor.
