Oil will NEVER run out. One day perhaps no longer economically viable but never run out.I’d like to know who’s going to get the last tank of fuel and how much it will cost.
Not enough head sadly. Been looked at.Pumped storage of seawater.
There are lots of old fiord-type sea inlets up the west of Scotland, only occupied by sheep.
A few dams and fill them up with the briny.
Oil will NEVER run out. One day perhaps no longer economically viable but never run out.
More and more ways are being found of extracting it from shale etc. The price is actually going down worldwide consumption is also falling.
It can also be made by synthetic means.
Per mile road pricing....Governments make massive revenue from oil, petrol, diesel sales. What are they going to replace that revenue with if oil disappears from sale ?
Per mile road pricing while probably the way its going to go would bankrupt us all the cost wold be phenomenal cause they will probably charge something along the lines of say 20p per mile if you do 10000 miles a year that means you would be paying £2000 pounds a year in road tax.They are going to have to add tax to BEV’s somewhere there’s no two ways about it. You can’t track the electric used to charge them 100% like fuel so it’s gonnna have to be another model. Personally I think they have the road tax wrong on them. Instead of it being free or low it should be per mile used.
How much tax do you pay on fuel if you do 10000 miles a year?Per mile road pricing while probably the way its going to go would bankrupt us all the cost wold be phenomenal cause they will probably charge something along the lines of say 20p per mile if you do 10000 miles a year that means you would be paying £2000 pounds a year in road tax.
Not really sure what fuel duty is.How much tax do you pay on fuel if you do 10000 miles a year?
Just worked it out £836 a year which is less than half and you can be sure the government will find a way of extracting more money than that per year from the tax payer this is based on 10000 miles a year at 30 miles to the gallon.How much tax do you pay on fuel if you do 10000 miles a year?
So your comparing an actual amount you are getting charged currently with a figure you’ve just made up? (20p a mile)Just worked it out £836 a year which is less than half and you can be sure the government will find a way of extracting more money than that per year from the tax payer this is based on 10000 miles a year at 30 miles to the gallon.
https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/road-pricingSo your comparing an actual amount you are getting charged currently with a figure you’ve just made up? (20p a mile)
It’s all just speculation though - so you “might” end up paying more, you “might” pay less (unlikely I would have thought). Don’t forget the road pricing you linked to was in effect touted to replace ved (car tax) not fuel tax, so presumably another method will be needed as and when they seek to replace fuel tax revenues.https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/road-pricing
Yes it is a guestimate but the government has already come out and said that for the most congested places road pricing is going to be set around a maximum of £1.34 per mile so a conculusion based so if its a graduated pay scale where £1.34 is the maximum you will pay 20p per mile sounds a reasonable guess for your average road.
Not to mention you will pay this on top of road tax, fuel duty (electric or fossil), vat on fuel etc as they will find a way to justify keeping them too.
It’s all just speculation though - so you “might” end up paying more, you “might” pay less (unlikely I would have thought). Don’t forget the road pricing you linked to was in effect touted to replace ved (car tax) not fuel tax, so presumably another method will be needed as and when they seek to replace fuel tax revenues.
Yeah, I’m not arguing anything is fair currently, just that it will have to change.But road tax / ved is so unequal at the minute how will it work. The Mrs pays £30 a year, I pay almost that a month
The government have made a commitment that all new cars and vans must be 0 emissions by 2040 and it is expected that within the next 10 years 50% of cars and vans should be 0 emissions. There will be legislation along the way to ensure this happens.