£25 Congestion Charge Gets Green Light
Mayor creates gas guzzler charge for Congestion Zone
The controversial scheme will mean that from October 27 cars with the highest greenhouse gas emissions will pay the daily charge within the Congestion Zone.
Meanwhile cars with the lowest CO2 emissions (Bands A and B) will receive a 100 per cent discount, which the Mayor hopes will make people go green.
These vehicles emit less than 120g of C02 per kilometre.
The scheme is a key part of the Mayor's Climate Change Action Plan, which aims to reduce London's C02 emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.
Gas guzzlers that will be charged £25 to drive in the zone are Band G, and emit over 225g of C02 per kilometre.
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said: ‘Nobody needs to damage the environment by driving a gas guzzling Chelsea Tractor in central London.
‘The CO2 emissions from the most high powered 4x4s and sports cars can be up to four times as great of those of the least polluting cars.
‘The CO2 charge will encourage people to switch to cleaner vehicles or public transport and ensure that those who choose to carry on driving the most polluting vehicles help pay for the environmental damage they cause.’
I feel sorry for you London folks, I really do. Whilst I enjoy the same ass-raping every motorist does, at least I know I live out in the middle of nowhere in Northumberland and (with a bit of luck) any CC zone anywhere, is unlikely to reach me.
I do wonder if Red Ken has to answer to anyone, tho. Seems he can just wake up one morning and say, "Hy, let's charge people for wearing shoes in the city!" and it happens. No questions asked.
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being someone who owns a Band G car living in the zone, do you think i would have been an ideal person to have been consulted on during this 'public consultation'. I heard the rumour last year even surfed CClondons web page, there was no public consultation, its fcuking communism! he probably asked three of his leaf eating mates what they thought whilst s ucking each other off in a turkish bath.
I hope he dies horribly in by getting crushed between a G-wizz and a prius, surviving only to be killed by a massive freak discharge from the g-wizz's battery and then the trafalgar square pigeons come and eat his f ucking eyeballs out before his corpse is trapped under a bendy bus and dragged round the streets of london - thats what londers really want you commy
!and breath......
Why does he even pretend it's for environmental and congestion reasons, when everyone (or everyone with a brain) knows it's ballix.
Somebody put him out of our misery - method is up to you - I'll even donate a couple of quid for his 'accident'.
* sorry, but I thought there was only comedian with Ken as a first name.
Also I do believe that these Prius' etc aren't made by pixies, but rather big smoke belching factories and container ships / trains / trucks. But no.. they arrive from la la land on the drive???? Why can't people keep a car for longer than they keep a f@cking washing machine or tv so that there are less on the road, and we wouldn't have this problem. Why have a new car every 3 years anyway? It takes loads of CO2 to build them! Work it out! A 'gas guzzler' kept ofr a long time and used only when the tube is not sufficient is better than a hippy going round in a new euro 1L crap box every 2 years striving for that extra 2 mpg! duh!
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