If fuel duty is so exorbitant, why are the roads so congested? And we need high prices to try and reduce import dependence, which is an economic and strategic liability.
Fuel duty will be frozen for the ninth year in a row, the Prime Minister will announce today. We've found that keeping fuel duty essentially unchanged since 2010-11 now costs the Treasury around £9bn per year.pic.twitter.com/dGVvkPZkCH
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Have you estimated how much this has added to carbon emissions and air pollution?
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Hi Alex - thanks for your interest. This isn't something we've looked at specifically I'm afraid.
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Do you think the saving people make is going to be spent on extra fuel for some reason?
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@David_Cameron promised the *greenest government ever*. The reality is burning £9 billion every year to subsidise air pollution.#CPC18 -
It doesn’t cost the treasury anything as it wasn’t their’s in the first place. Fuel is already expensive enough.
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So not taxing something ‘costs’ the government money? A ridiculous assertion.
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Yes, you are correct. We're allowing the owners of fossil-fuel burning vehicles keep £9bn per year, while the rest of society loses £9bn of benefits. Good for the few, not the many!
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