Date published: 2008/07/04
The BBC says:
A root and branch review of motoring taxation in the UK should be carried out by the Treasury, says motorists' organisation the RAC Foundation.
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The RAC Foundation said sustained high oil prices had significantly affected family spending, and motorists were "paying more and more for an ever-poorer level of service".
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The RAC claimed that income from motorists was broadly equal to spending on the road network in 1975, but the government now brought in four times as much from the motorist than it spent on the roads.
The two main motoring organisations in the UK, the RAC and the AA, are pretty useless special interest pressure groups. The fact that motorists are completely fleeced by the government, as pointed out in the last paragraph above, is perfect proof of this. Of course the RAC and AA are not helped by the fact that the BBC and most of the rest of the media is dominated by the academic middle class, who hate drivers (excepting themselves and their friends and family of course). Indeed, one cannot imagine the BBC using the word "claimed" the way they have in the last paragraph if it was some random fact asserted by a cycling special interest pressure group. And this is an easy enough fact to check, so why didn't the BBC bother to check it?
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