Biggest Gripe

[ALFAitalia]

There is no road tax in France to be pedantic....but there is an emissions tax... which recently increased.. cars producing over (a quite low) 194 g per km now have to find 60,000 Euros....but only when they are first registered....not annually..... no wonder the place is crawling with small engined rubbish.

France tightens penalty tax for polluting and heavy new vehicles - electrive.com

France not only has a reformed subsidy scheme for electric vehicles since the beginning of the year. A penalty tax, the so-called "malus ecologique" for polluting and heavy combustion vehicles, has also been increased to keep said vehicles off the road.

www.electrive.com

 

[slade1]

Just work the system buy an older car 1984 or earlier car
"You cannot please all the people all the time only please some of the people some of the time"

 

[TrueSpirit]

Taxes on the economic use of vehicles (ex-TVS)

The business levy is replaced by two levies: the annual levy on CO_2 emissions and the annual levy on air pollutant emissions (which replaces the annual seniority levy introduced in 2023). Any company must pay these taxes on passenger cars used for economic purposes. They concern the...

entreprendre.service-public.fr

We were all drunk and my IT manager has a knack for getting things wrong, all I can see is max €6k per the above link for businesses . I'll ask him where he got his info from because it seems he got the wrong end of the stick and I did the same !

 

[John N]

They promise the earth. Just pie in the sky really.

Pie's! I must have missed that debate!

 

[John N]

Strange really. This started on Road Tax now we are on the weather. Where to from here?

Badge or de-badge will pop up shortly!

 

[ToeKnee]

Badge or de-badge will pop up shortly!

Are you talking AMG badges??

 

[SpikyMikey]

Are you talking AMG badges??

 

[BobQ]

it's not paying road tax that bothers me. It's not having to pay it that gets my goat.

 

[BobQ]

Oh gosh , in France now my IT manager at work was telling me if your car has a bigger than 3l engine, you're looking at 20000 euros of road tax a year. As much as people hail the French model, I'd vote for them to introduce Macron to a guillotine

Is this because he does a lot of miles? it's not a set figure I believe. Could always get a mini

 

[RichWeath]

I wish somebody controlled the weather we might get a summer then.

They literally do, that's why we don't have good summers. It's not even conspiracy shit my friend, it's openly admitted by multiple governments/nations, most notably saudi/dubai.

 

[ALFAitalia]

 

[Gollom]

They literally do, that's why we don't have good summers. It's not even conspiracy shit my friend, it's openly admitted by multiple governments/nations, most notably saudi/dubai.

Missed the dancing bananas at the end of this post....

 

[RichWeath]

Cloud seeding is a decades-old weather-modification strategy that adds these binding agents to the atmosphere, in an attempt to get more precipitation to fall. It is used by countries around the world, usually in areas that are facing drought concerns. The process can be done from the ground, with generators, or with planes.

Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods

Questions have swirled online about the process being behind the historic rainfall – but experts say it’s not the real culprit

www.theguardian.com

What is Cloud Seeding?

DRI is science for a smarter Nevada and a smarter world.

www.dri.edu

Planned Weather Modification through Cloud Seeding

(Adopted by the AMS Council on 2 November 2010)

www.ametsoc.org

As I said, plenty of info on it.

 

[TrueSpirit]

Cloud seeding is a decades-old weather-modification strategy that adds these binding agents to the atmosphere, in an attempt to get more precipitation to fall. It is used by countries around the world, usually in areas that are facing drought concerns. The process can be done from the ground, with generators, or with planes.

Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods

Questions have swirled online about the process being behind the historic rainfall – but experts say it’s not the real culprit

www.theguardian.com

What is Cloud Seeding?

DRI is science for a smarter Nevada and a smarter world.

www.dri.edu

Planned Weather Modification through Cloud Seeding

(Adopted by the AMS Council on 2 November 2010)

www.ametsoc.org

As I said, plenty of info on it.

100% correct, however if people didn't watch it on the BBC or read about it in the guardian then it cant be taking place

 

[Bellow]

BST.

 

[Fastcar155]

The state of British roads

 

[ALFAitalia]

They filled in nearly all the potholes around here.... just before the election....strange that eh?

 

[clk320x]

Road Tax. Election coming why don't they bring back road tax for all vehicles. You can afford a classic car but don't pay road tax cos don't use it enough. Plus all these so called low emissions etc. If they use the road pay the tax that's what I say.

lol

 

[Fastcar155]

Have not been able to find any likely charges if RFl if abolished to be replaced by pay per mile.
Any ideas

 

[Gollom]

Have not been able to find any likely charges if RFl if abolished to be replaced by pay per mile.
Any ideas

I am willing to bet that PPM will be in addition, not instead of. Unless you are on benefits etc. etc. etc.

Bitter, me? KIK