I know this sounds very simplistic, but aren’t a lot of people who can afford to buy an SUV well able to afford a tax increase on SUV’s? Anyone I know who drives one could. Easily.
How dare you purchase an SUV with your hard-earned money in a free society! We as government will tell you what to drive. The green lunacy continues.
EV’s are very heavy because of the batteries. Even the non-SUV ones. Will the fact that they are EV’s be taken into account?
This is going to also impact electric cars as they weigh a lot.
For example, the smallest tesla weighs 1650kgs… So they introduce it for SUV’s then expand it out to electric cars when the emissions tax starts taking a big hit.
At 1800kg, this wont affect most of the most popular SUVs. But at €10 but 10kg, it would only add €600 to the price of a Ford Raptor.
SUV is a green party trigger word. It’s like woke, for the Torries.
Means whatever you want it to.
Explicitly define it, or it’s meaningless.
Probably makes sense as the taxes earned based on charging vehicles by emissions produced will gradually reduce as we switch to more efficient vehicles.
Heavier vehicles cause more damage to roads, and are a bit more dangerous than lighter vehicles to other road users, so a weight based tax will probably replace what we have now in the future.
Presume it shouldn’t apply to EVs just yet though no? Not when we want to encourage people to change, should be an exception for EVs since the batteries are so heavy.
Makes sense. Heavier vehicles wear out the roads more than lighter ones do, therefore they should pay more.
Have we defined what problem exactly are we trying to solve here?
Taxes are a lazy approach to fixing any problem which disproportionately affects poorer people, and the Greens need to stop with the kneejerk “tax” response to issues (although I’m not sure Greens care about poor people).
> When it was put to Cuffe that electric vehicles contain heavy batteries, the MEP said: “Indeed, which is all the more reason why we need to choose sensibly when we’re choosing an electric vehicle.
Green Party, it’s all about the tax.
Can we not just levy it by mileage?
A micra that goes up and down to Dublin for an hour each way, 49 weeks of the year does more damage to the roads/environment than a hummer that only goes on the road one dry summer day a year.
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I know this sounds very simplistic, but aren’t a lot of people who can afford to buy an SUV well able to afford a tax increase on SUV’s? Anyone I know who drives one could. Easily.
How dare you purchase an SUV with your hard-earned money in a free society! We as government will tell you what to drive. The green lunacy continues.
EV’s are very heavy because of the batteries. Even the non-SUV ones. Will the fact that they are EV’s be taken into account?
This is going to also impact electric cars as they weigh a lot.
For example, the smallest tesla weighs 1650kgs… So they introduce it for SUV’s then expand it out to electric cars when the emissions tax starts taking a big hit.
At 1800kg, this wont affect most of the most popular SUVs. But at €10 but 10kg, it would only add €600 to the price of a Ford Raptor.
SUV is a green party trigger word. It’s like woke, for the Torries.
Means whatever you want it to.
Explicitly define it, or it’s meaningless.
Probably makes sense as the taxes earned based on charging vehicles by emissions produced will gradually reduce as we switch to more efficient vehicles.
Heavier vehicles cause more damage to roads, and are a bit more dangerous than lighter vehicles to other road users, so a weight based tax will probably replace what we have now in the future.
Presume it shouldn’t apply to EVs just yet though no? Not when we want to encourage people to change, should be an exception for EVs since the batteries are so heavy.
Makes sense. Heavier vehicles wear out the roads more than lighter ones do, therefore they should pay more.
Have we defined what problem exactly are we trying to solve here?
Taxes are a lazy approach to fixing any problem which disproportionately affects poorer people, and the Greens need to stop with the kneejerk “tax” response to issues (although I’m not sure Greens care about poor people).
> When it was put to Cuffe that electric vehicles contain heavy batteries, the MEP said: “Indeed, which is all the more reason why we need to choose sensibly when we’re choosing an electric vehicle.
Green Party, it’s all about the tax.
Can we not just levy it by mileage?
A micra that goes up and down to Dublin for an hour each way, 49 weeks of the year does more damage to the roads/environment than a hummer that only goes on the road one dry summer day a year.
User pays, is the only equitable solution.