ONE issue which is seldom discussed or even mentioned is how the Government will replace the current £30 billion annual revenue from vehicles as a consequence of their diktat banning the future sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles and their replacement by electrically-driven vehicles (EVs).
At the moment EVs enjoy the use of lower-cost electricity which at present does not incur the equivalent of fuel taxes (fuel duty plus VAT) but this will not prevail for much longer. Financial estimates suggest that an average of some £1,000 per annum payment per vehicle will have to be recovered – hopefully this will not be accommodated by further increasing electricity prices for all.
Utopia does not exist.
GM Lindsay, Kinross.
HOLYROOD has pledged to ban the use of gas over the next decade, which will mean the end of gas central heating in Scotland. Have political parties agreed to demand that energy companies price-match their costs for central heating with the current price of gas?
Ian Moir,
Castle Douglas.
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