Thursday, March 22, 2007

Gas guzzlers hit hard | Travel and transport | Guardian Unlimited Environment

Gas guzzlers hit hard

Owners of fuel-hungry cars were hit by a near-doubling of road taxes today as the chancellor continued to target transport's contribution to carbon emissions.
Four months after airline passenger taxes were doubled, 4x4 drivers were the latest group of transport users to be swept up in Gordon Brown's greening of the nation's finances. The top band of vehicle excise duty, which comprises the least fuel efficient vehicles on UK roads, will rise from £210 to £300 immediately and will reach £400 next year, hitting 225,000 drivers who bought cars in the highest road tax band since April last year.

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