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There Is a lively discussion over on politics.ie at the moment about the new Motor tax regime. With many posters pointing out that it will make old cars paying higher motor tax then new ones. Poster noodles
Just checked my car.. Ford Mondeo Diesel 115bhp TdCi, 2004. 154 grammes per Km. That makes me a Band C or E290 if it was a new car. However as mine is a 2004 car I will continue to pay 560 + 9.5% increase. Well done mr. gormleyE350 reduction for new car versus my car.
AS I said before.
In 1994 the Environment and Forecasting Institute in Heidelberg, Germany conducted a survey on the energy and environmental impact of a car through out its life time. Having driven 13,000 km a year for 10 years. It will produce 2,040m cubic metres of polluted air driving and 922m in production. This mean that about 40% of the emissions coming from a car in its 10 year lifetime comes from the manufacture. Or to put it another way. If you buy a new car every 4 years the greatest factor in the emissions in the car comes from the manufacture not the fuel.
So basically this new regime seems to be incentives new car purchases and more manufacturing costs. So while it will cause a drop in Irish emissions (as we produce no cars) world emission would go up.
Just want to put a point forward, let me start with a personnal experience of my own, I visited a small town near Galway a month ago and what I saw there was just unreal… The house hold have no collection for rubbish instead they have a heating unit in their kitchen in which they burn all their rubbish and yes that includes plastic.
It is a very small town I won’t name it, I asked the people living in the house where I stayed that whats the deal here, they told me every house ‘get rid of their waste like this, there is no waste collection service here’.
Now how come the government is not putting efforts to cut down pollution in these kind of towns, instead taking more money from people for having a basic necessity of life(CARS)?
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