Compulsory Road Pricing to Stop Global Warming?
It could happen. It’s already being (re)considered in the UK. In 2004, the then British Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, floated a “green tax” idea that would have motorists paying a road user tax of around 2p to £1.50 a mile, depending on time of day and levels of congestion.
But this road pricing scheme never really stood a chance. Almost 2 million Brits signed a petition against the green tax and as a result it was shelved.
Now a new report by the Committee on Climate Change, an …
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