I know I've posted on this before, and I make no apology for it.
If you drive, I recommend this. It's going to work and the more people that sign up the better. I get a short email from them every month and that's all. I recommend it, and encourage you to recommend it as widely as you can among your own network: the more people that join the greater the buying power. It could mean a discount of as much as 10p a litre.
Go. Sign up!
4 comments:
I hesitate to sign up, because I'm not sure we should be encouraging car drivers. Making petrol cheaper for individual drivers isn't going to be a good thing for public transport (is it?)
Have to think about it some more.
But I will be at work tomorrow pm :)
I've just joined. As a self-employed person working for mostly domestic clients all over the middle of the country I simply can't avoid driving. Especially when I often have quite bulky technical equipment with me.
Motorists are the great victimised majority. We are taxed and taxed again. By emissions (road fund licence), by miles travelled (fuel tax), by VAT, company car tax, GATSOs (which are simply a tax on regular drivers, don't try and persuade me they're not), over and over again.
I live in a small village - by choice, the right to which I will defend to the death - which only recently had its bus service reinstated. So if I want to go to the middle of the local market town, that's great. Otherwise, I can fuck off. And many of my journeys are to take my kids out to evening opportunities (cubs, beavers, gymnastics, karate) with which I am determined to provide them. And there is no way they are getting a bus to these by themselves. In the dark.
We car share as much as we can - no car goes to school in town without several families' chilren - and both my cars are diesel and efficient. Nothing personal, Mig, but public transport cannot and will not ever provide a valid solution.
No developed country in the world except the UK even tries to provide an integrated transport system without massive public money support. Everyone goes on about the Swiss, Geman, Japanese trains. Massively publicly subsidised, the lot of them. That's why we can't compete. The Pipeline thing is as much a protest march, or a petition, to central government as it is a price negotiating body. If enough people show support, then some central government thinking will have to be changed, and then perhaps central government funds can be reinvested in railways instead of, say, invading other countries.
I feel better now.
*gets off soapbox*
I deleted mine own comment becasue it was a rant and not nearly as effectively put as CwhatC.I get very very fed up with being criticised for driving when there is no alternative. And there is none for 90% of my journeys.
I will rant agan when I have more time. Lucky you!
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