Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
I don't think that is the best think of the actual cost of the whole program.

Add the equivalent on the petrol. It would be perhaps a penny or two on a litre with no cost at all for collection and admin as the taxes are already collected on petrol and thus no additional costs. And no police, court, administration costs for abuse.


Also, it would mean a gas guzzler would pay a lot more that a small saloon and the guy who drivers every day would pay more that the family man taking the wife and kids to the countryside a few weekends in the summer.

What's wrong with that ?
It could be partially paid for by a levy on insurance companies, they would be doing more business with less dodgers around.

Not living in the UK you aren't up to speed on the current situation, as well as hundreds of thousands of local uninsured drivers there are untold Eastern Europeans rolling about in uninsured un MO'Td British registered wrecks. My 18 year old nephew had his parked up first car written off outside my sisters house by a drunken unlicensed, uninsured beered up Pole. As one would expect he got fined a couple of hundred quid on easy terms and 12 points on the Brit licence he didn't have. The only plus side was that my older nephew and his mates got to the drunken Pole before the Police did