This will be where the current CX etc will continue their lives as fast silent milk floats. Part of my reason for hanging on to my Plus 8, they can tax it like crazy and put the fuel price up but we will still be there annoying them all.
I hope you are right , but I get a feeling we are in for a rude awakening, unless the likes of Reform get into power. A recent article expressed concerns over Labour's approach to North Sea Oil extraction, pointing out that their ongoing taxation regime and new exploration licence restrictions, despite the massive tax revenues generated to the Treasury, are designed to keep the remaining estimated 1.5 bn barrels of oil trapped under the North Sea. No concerns for fossil fuel energy security, even though they will have to import instead, it means they can also control and therefore effectively restrict or ration imported supply.
There is also a growing campaign of disinformation about over 70's drivers, of which there are currently 6m (1.6m are over 80), 1 in 7 of the UK licenced drivers. I can see a time in the not too distant future when either reportable health restrictions, mandatory eye testing, increasing permanent banning offences or having to resit the driving test on each licence renewal, with an already massive backlog of applicants awaiting tests, will drive the over 70's off the road, and with them potential 6 million plus motor vehicles and their resultant pollution.
There are lots of ways of skinning the cat with the aim of reducing current level of car pollution and one is to restrict new drivers (lengthy delays in test dates) and secondly reduce level of existing licenced drivers.
