CAR WARS
he government has proposed a sweeping fuel-efficient-vehicle policy that would make some cars “Te up to $8000 cheaper while others would be $3000 more expensive!” states a recent opinion-paper headline. Whatever next? We’ve previously had a registration system that depended (supposedly) on how big your vehicle was, to encourage us into less ‘gas-guzzling’ vehicles. That scheme was only recently scrapped. It wasn’t very effective, though, as my Mustang was cheaper to register than my Toyota! Now we have the ‘Feebate’ scheme, so-called because it is not a new tax, as
