Motoring Discussion > Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars Green Issues
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 09:21 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - movilogo
www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/11/call-for-pollution-tax-on-sales-of-new-diesel-cars-in-britain
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 09:23 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - Old Navy
Standard any government tactics. Move the goalposts and slap a tax on the bit moved from.
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 09:29 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - movilogo
If NOx is more harmful why the tax is based on CO2 emissions rather than NOx emission?

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New Fri 11 Mar 16 09:39 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - CGNorwich
The former is a direct danger to human health, the latter a cause of global warming. Both are harmful but in a different ways. Unfortunately cars are always a pollutant in one way or other.
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 09:48 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - No FM2R
>>why the tax is based on CO2 emissions rather than NOx emission?

Because at the time the media was full of CO2 and so the public accepted the tax. They would have accepted an NOx tax less willingly since it was relatively unknown.
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 11:23 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - movilogo
I think tax rule changing from next year (new cars only) and no longer depends on emission.


www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-news/88361/tax-disc-changes-everything-you-need-to-know-about-uk-road-tax
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New Fri 11 Mar 16 16:07 
 Call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars - Cliff Pope
>> Standard any government tactics. Move the goalposts and slap a tax on the bit moved
>> from.
>>

The point of taxes like this is to nudge people into changing their buying patterns. If they do, then it is the public that moves the goal posts, because they stop aiming at the old target and move to the new one.
If the policy were 100% effective no one would hit the old target and the tax take would drop to zero. Therefore there has to be a new set of posts.
It's public behaviour as much as governments that make this happen.
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