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Nhumrod
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Posted: 09 Febuary 2007 at 9:21am | IP Logged  

This isnt a fake and the link is real. The petition is now up to 905,000 people.

I've signed it...

Cheers

Alex

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Radio 2 talked about the proposed Road Pricing car tax scheme on the radio. Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax. The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at the time of the comments only 250,000 people have signed it so far and 750,000 signatures are required to stop them introducing it. Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you Having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.

If you care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/



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done and done

we win:
Signatures: 919,489

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same n same

Signatures: 925,583........yup we win



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Posted: 09 Febuary 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged  

Signed ages ago.

Wow it's already twice what is was when I signed it.
and 3 times larger then when it made the government spot it.

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Lol is someone from america aloud to sign it(that was a joke) but it really sounds bogus that is some pretty lame s*** they are trying to pull.

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Wow its 979k thats pushing a million

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Well the government has now said they will not try this scheme unless the public backs it (good luck with that).

but at the same time they are still says "Doing nothing is not an option".

Which is true but this idea stupid on so many levels due to the fact it does not encourage better options.
If I had a car that did not use petrol and made no pollution I would still be charged the same as the pollution-mobile.

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