And will the Government will lead by example by getting environmentally friendly cars of will they keep their 4l jags ?

Jason Bew, Chalfont St Peter, UK

Shrink your government and quit spending so much. Move decisions, taxation, and spending decisions to as locval a level as possible. All the nat'l gov't should do is defense, regulate exports, imports, maintain postal services, and enforce laws, and even that should be more localized. Everything else should be done regionally or locally with monies collected at the level. Get out of peoples' way and watch your economy take off.

Steve Austin, Hopkinsville KY, America

Dont do it Darling 'You'll be Sorry'

micky Boy, Leeds, UK

that is one choice.

crispin willis, cupar, fife

please please uk wake up
there is no such thing as global
warming.this is just an excuse to create green taxes so we can employ more public sector workers with gilt edge pensions that we can only dream about.where has all the money gone . gordon brown will go down as the worst chancellor ever what price did he sell the gold at the cost to the nations coffers is 4 bln and counting . does anybody know if
this goverment will build any new roads no we do not need new roads we need more public sector workers plus northern rock .one more word of advice do not listen to what they say just watch what they do . oh the budget well taxes will have to go up between 15 to 20% over the next 2 years thats
if we have a mild recession if we have a well i do not even want to go there banks have no money and the goverment will have no money lets call the imf is this the seventies
what did are beloved chancellor say no boom or bust .

edward read, bromley, kent

What a joke! Tax tax tax.
You know what they say about Labour...empty heads vote them in, empty pockets vote them out. SK

Steven, Liverpool,

Darling has two choices. Increase taxes or sack public sector workers.
He is in a no win situation.
If he reduces public sector workers, this will create unemployment and mean he will have to pay unemployment benefits and these people would not be able to buy goods of private sector companies creating unemployment of private sector workers.
Putting up taxes means that people will have less consumable income, meaning they can afford to pay less for goods from private sector workers which means unemployment of private sector workers.
The conclusion is that unemployment is inevitable. This will result in arrears in mortages resulting in repossessions resulting in house price falls resulting in negative equity resulting in people deciding to go for personal bankruptcy and round we go again.

Johny, Kings Langley, England

There is nothing "green" about this at all, it's just a tax.

(Coincidence that, coming from a Labour government that's short of money).

Look at real green issues
a) fly-tipping is bad for the environment, hence it's illegal
b) putting toxic waste in reservoirs is bad for the environment, hence it's illegal

If the government thought these cars were seriously bad for the environment, they'd make them illegal.

But - no - just like more flights out of Heathrow - the government claim it's bad for the environment, but then say "oh, but you'll willing to chuck us a big wedge of money, that's OK then"

Also, what about the £ BILLIONS the government get from fuel duty, but spend it on - well, I have no idea - but it certainly isn't the roads or the environment.

Total hypocrisy.

Clive, Surrey,

Darling is desperate for taxes for the huge deficit.

Carbon Footprint/Emmissions/Green will be one excuse for these taxes. Flight will be a definate. Road taxes based on carbon emmission bands.

Tax on booze because of the drinking problems of the youth.

Cigarettes for health issues

I would not be surprised if VAT was put up from 17.5% to 19% with the justification/excuse that Germany is 20%, France 19%, Italy 20% etc etc. It would theoretically not effect basic living costs; mortgage payments, rent, food, council tax which are all exempt.

Lots of taxes can come in on the above and then he will lower the basic rate of tax on the grounds of help the middle class.

Non Doms will not be taxed "until a review has been made"

Johny, Kings Langley, England

The Smart and Prius are not representative of cars that are tax bands A or B. Moreover, lots of familly cars are tax band C including diesel versions of premium saloon cars.
I do not welcome Darling's measures - But misleading and populists columns irritate me even more.

alan, West Midlands, UK

Fine tax the person who's buying the car brand new, £2,000 will make very little difference (Particularly, as is the case so often, when the car is being bought on finance - perhaps a few pounds extra a month over a 3-5 year term).

But really forget being "antienvironmental", the really losers will be the common man who needs his car to get to work and earn a few pennies.

I'd probably also think that politically speaking it would be wise to delay/cancel any plans to increase fuel duty - Labour need all the help they can get in that sense, right now.

Hassan Azam, Banbury , Oxfordshire, England

Would Alistair Darling pop round and show me how to fit 3 child seats into a smart car, he could also help with putting the pram in the boot.

How out of touch are these people? Public transport is not an option, hugely expensive, filthy and infrequent. I have no doubt he is driven around by a driver in his Band G car. Labour are distroying our country and the sooner they are out the better.

Emma, Guildford,

Ha! Ha! I wonder when Labour will start taxing for the air that we breathe according to our individual lung's capacity. It is time to leave the country! With Labour in power, quality of life is extremely poor here.

Rose, Surbiton-Surrey, UK

"Cross border smuggling"? Whys is this term - indicating a criminal activity - used. It is PERFECTLY LEGAL to import alcohol from other EU-countries for your personal use. (Of course GOING there will require you to use your car....

What will a higher tax on new cars achieve? As could be seen in some Scandinavian countries, this will result in people keeping older - more polluting - cars for longer, as could be seen in countries such as Finland.

Adrian, London, UK

Daniel Smith. Hale Barnes.
Could you enlighten me and tell me what good things labour have done, as I am at a loss as to how you came to this conclusion. If you could just name one I will be satisfied, as I dont know one area where they have meddled with, and not cocked up. There is an old saying, absolute power breeds coruption, can't remember who said it but it's the truest thing I've ever heard, and this lot are the most corrupt government I've ever lived under.

preddo53, Leeds, UK

I have observed labour with total dismay over the past five years. When the conservatives were in power I supported labour and canvassed for labour. I also had the only 'vote labour' billboard in a street of conservative billboards.

I attended the Times Lectures to see and hear Tony Blair utter the words 'Education, Education, Education', (I bought his book, he even signed it) only to find university fees established, heavy taxation on peoples basic mode of transport, chaos with binge drinking on the streets of the UK and heavy taxation on the one piece of relieve that most people have in the year, an annual holiday. This when Tony Blair regularly sunned himself abroad with his family.

This latest 'showroom' tax is a total disgrace. Time to wake up Britain and make your opinions known through the vote at the next general election. I moved overseas for a better life (which it is) but if I was still living in the UK, Cameron would get my vote in the blink of an eye.

BNR, Channel Islands,

My car is my tool for getting to work.I live in Wales and I work at
London Heathrow.Since the £1 for a litre of diesel has made the hurdle,it has steadily by every month getting worse.I just don't know how the chancellor has got the brass neck to consider hike another tax increase what is already crippling for people like me. I'm not rich,I am just an ordinary working class bloke working shifts trying to make ends meet. I didn't vote for labour before and shall never will vote for them. Of course they will not listen to me or anybody else, they will do their usual arrogant thing and carry on regardless.

paul edwards, Meidrim, Carmarthenshire uk

I think the German, Japanese, French, Italian and American Governments should be complaining to Alistair Darling about how badly he is treating their car companies.

DickW, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

I view a part of an aspirational society as one where anyone who works hard can aspire to own a nice car. Well not under Labour, or Livingstone for that matter, you will now have to be the absolute super elite wealthy to own a nice car in the UK. This is nothing more than another tax and just makes the gap between the haves and have nots much greater. Please, please let us vote this government out.

Btw, the UK only contrubutes 2% of world CO2 emissions, and 30 million cars in UK contribute a fraction of that, so this will not any difference to the climate.

D Beattie, London, UK

New Car Sales are already down by about 5% compared to last year and it is almost always the Motor Trade that sees the start of any recession. Put extra taxes on new cars and you can guarantee that we will be in a recession by the end of this year. Only last week, Brown said that inflation was under control at 2%. This man is insulting every individual in the U.K. Diesel is up 20% on last year, Council Tax up an extra 4 - 5%, Utility Bills up 15%, Bread, Butter and BAsisc all up by 10%. Does he think we are all Bl**dy stupid? We cannot take any more taxes. Get the public spending under control and stop w asting OUR money on wars in Iraq and elsewhere. Do it now before you destroy this Country once and for all.

Derek, Bristol,

Perhaps Mr Darling would like to explain to my neighbour, a man with a modest job, who has four children just what car he can buy to transport his family without paying more tax. He runs a 8 year old people carrier. Oh, and he works shift work, so public transport is little use.for work travel.

KW, Bognor Regis, England

I have a four wheel drive vehicle because I have to. I live up on the Yorkshire wolds and in the winter it's the only vehicle that gets me home. I had a normal car before and ended up walking a mile home in a snow blizzard. Hence the 4X4.
Does the government switch on their collective brains to realise that taxing is not the panacea they seem to think it is.

The government need to put their own house in order. Millions would be saved if in house corruption and greed was stopped.

I vote a "no confidence" on the present government , certainly the ones at the helm.

Peter, York,

Green tax, They are having a laugh !!

marko, edinburgh,

Sorround yourself with clowns but don't be surprised when a circus breaks out. TAXes are their only solution.

Charles of Philly, Philadelphia, USA

So many different forms of tax it is ridiculous.
Why don't we just get taxed once on our incomes and save billions by reducing the administration costs.
The people employed to oversee all this tax collection could then be paid to do something productive.

g whiteside , lytham, lancashire

This will only increase the exodus of Brits from the U.K., and can only be changed by voting the bums out en masse!!! If you have ever wondered why Socialism is a taboo label in the US, you are living the reason.

Vince, Heidelberg, Germany

NON-DOMS Its pathetic if we believe that the only way we can attract international talent to the City is by retaining our banana republic tax haven status. Surely our numerous advantages including time-zone, language, democratic institutions and London itself should be sufficient ?

David Cardale, Chippenham, UK

Really can't stand Labour anymore. They have done some good things but this is becoming a joke. Taxation on alcohol and cigarrettes are ok because that is a life choice but many people are forced to drive due to the fact you cant get a bus from places out in the countryside. Fuel duty needs to be cut.

And a Show Room tax? The Government gets over 45£bill in tax already from motorists what does it need more money for unless this is to cut fuel duty? Poorer families with cars probably spend more money on fuel that middle affluent ones as they can't afford modern more economical cars. A 330d BMW engine is going to be far mroe economical than a 2.0petrol mondeo from 5+years ago.

There's no Democracy anymore! We don't want these tax rises but they do it anyway.

Daniel Smith, Hale Barns, Cheshire,

Is tax the only tool in his box, if so we are in a lot of trouble. Please Britain lets make sure we vote these one trick ponies out at the next election.

Michael Shaw, Languidic, France

How about a tax for brreathing??? Nobody could escape that one!!!

Denise Black, France,

How lucky we in Britain are. We have possibly the worst public transport in western Europe and I guess the fastest rising taxes on vehicles. What an inept government we have. ANd worse - the Tories won't be any better.

David, London,

taxing cars is not a green tax. It does not go to green projects such as cleaner transport. It's just a TAX!!

Dennis, norwich,

I used to moan incessantly about our taxes when I lived in the UK, but now I really know the full meaning of fiscal discincentive since I emigrated to Denmark. However, it's strange that I complain less now. Could it also be down to the ways that governments choose to spend our cash? However, sad to say, but I don't believe UK taxes in total, are going to venture south in the near or distant future.

Bob, Copenhagen,

high taxes high oil prices and Labour in power this really does feel like the 1970s. God help us all

Garry Webster, Norwich,

I never ever thought I'd say this, but years of this pc driven government is making me seriously consider voting for the BNP at the next election.

B WILSON, Edinburgh,

Darling, no.

_Felix, Nottingham,

So we will have to pay increased tax to travel to work (fuel duty), to forget about work (alcohol duty), and to escape from work (air duty). Just why the hell are we working so hard? Ah, to pay more tax....unless you're a rich non-dom.

Lee, Bristol,

Green is the new red. NuLabour was never new. Old Labour hasn't gone away. Either get rid of them or knuckle down.

Richard, Cambridge, England

This is so far beyond ridiculous it hurts.

If fuel prices go up then yes, well done Darling, you make more money (to waste on petty targets and uselessness), we spend more money as we're not going to reduce our travel (we give him more tax from our already taxed incomes) and then the haulage companies are forced to raise their prices, resulting in everything we buy becoming more expensive- from the basics of bread & milk to luxury cars.

It's the point about the basics that seems to evade these bl**dy idiots. This paper reports the US is in recession- an economy largely driven by consumer spending. Which Darling is about to cripple with these lunatic tax plans.

Clearly Darling intends to keep our "special relationship" with the yanks by dragging our economy into the mire too.

I am SO looking forward to voting for absolutely anyone other than this Laurel and Hardy double act...

Tim, Bristol,

We should all get together and just for one day leave our cars at home tell our bosses we will be late for work as we are using public transport on this day.Can you imagine the damage to industry this would cause.We dont have enough buses-trains or trams to cope.Long gone are the days when we walked to the local Factory-mill or pit.A lot of goods are moved through the night now and its not unknow to have a four or five mile tail back due to road works or an accident in the night.And due to more goods being sent at night there are more people working shifts I for one could not get a bus home at 2-3 or 4 oclock as they dont start running until 5.But what the hell lets pay more tax and see nothing in return.Put the cost of fuel up in the name of being green pay more taxes on beer it will stop us binge drinking.I have just had a brilliant idea I will open a homebrew shop and a fish and chips shop I can live above them and have cheap beer and run a diesel on the used oil.

Mr L.K.Dews, Wakefield, England

This shambolic Government really has lost the plot.

If it moves they tax it and then tell the nation lies upon lies with misinformation and disinformation while liniing their pockets.

The NuLab state makes laws upon laws but Middle England
has become a serfdom like a Iron Curtain state.

It will take years to undo this mess, but then again the people wanted them in.

Kev Somers, Hertford, Herts

There are no stealth taxes. We all can see how over taxed we are. What we cant see is any benefit from all this taxation. Everything is working out fine for the super rich because they can afford more or less anything they want. The rest of us are getting taxed into meritocratic life styles. It is time politicians were paid the average salary so they get in touch with economics that the rest of us have. Maybe if officials were driving around in Smart cars the lies they tell about their commitment to green issues wouldn't sound so hollow. Public transport should be extended and made free to encourage its use. In the end we all pay taxes and all need a transport system. A free and adequate public transport system should be a social issue, just like street lighting. Too many of our essential infrastructure services are being destroyed and milked for profit by merciless and greedy high flyers aided by a government with no social conscience.

Tony Woods, London, UK

I feel sorry for the motorist, the cash cow and punch bag for green thinking gone wrong. when will govt deal with 1p cheap flights, lack of insulation and double glazing in uk homes, and the CO2 created by power stations? Cant we just cancel the Olymipcs and congratulate ourselves on the CO2s saved ..

mantra, London, UK

So the government is planning to tax family cars and family holidays, and raise household budgets, while offering tax concessions to rich foreign businessmen. I can't help feeling a tad let down.

Kevin M., Dartford, UK

Well Done to Mr Brown and the Darling puppet. I think that I would have Homer Simpson as the Chancellor!

The car industry as it is looks as though it will take an even greater hit they are strruggling now - recession looms and he can only tax another industry out of the UK while the threat of cheap Indian and Chinese cars looms in the wings - waiting to displace UK jobs.

Well if they are all unemployed they can't pay the tax....dhh

sheila, Cobham, UK

The answer to everything with this government is tax.

Green tax, red tax and now BROWN tax. What do they do with all these taxes?

CHRIS MILES, Manchester , uk

I feel completely and utterly ripped off. Where and how is the tax money being used? New logos etc. ?

There is a limit to what can be extracted from the people of this country in taxes, and I am sick and tired of 'duty' accelerating the prices we pay for fuel/alcohol/travel etc.

I pay tax because I have a social obligation to do so, but I do not like being ripped off. Labour - rubbish, but probably no worse than the rest.

Simon, Southampton, UK

This Government is King Midas in reverse; King Midas with a curse. A curse on all hard working people in this country.
They said things can only get better in 1997: but with the wars this country has been involved in; increased terrorism ; inundated with immigration causing more traffic chaos and pressure on housing; stealth taxes out of control; pensions mess. To name but few.
I have come to the conclusion they are not fit for purpose.

A Walton, Leicester, England

I have three kids under the age of nine. I need a large vehicle just for the safety seats alone. No consideration given at all to how the average person actually needs to live, just shame on us for driving a size vehicle that they piously deem as too large.

My council (hounslow) doesn't recycle plastic. The UK's total CO2 emmissions make up a fraction of what the developing world adds each month and we don't make any attempt to implement the simplest measure that directly impacts our local environment -- what we put in our landfills.

Transportation is a disaster - trains now running as slow or slower than in the 1910s and the most expensive in Europe, as well.

Are military is being starved from a lack of funding, while most of this administration have never served a day of service.

I'm left/right politics neutral, but this group are incompetant. They must go. Sooner the better. Give someone else a try - anyone else.

MS, london,

This is stealth tax and Old labour pure and simple. Labour wants more taxes to pour pounds down the NHS black hole.
There is no clearly working public transport system, even in London, where tubes are crowded in third world proportions, and thanks to Ken an Old Labour we are hit with all kinds of taxes to pay for Ken's buddies and their girlfriends.

Yet stupid people trust Brown and his party, a kind of voters' masochism?

Gary Smith, LONDON,

You lot voted them in.

Matt, Oundle,

An increase in taxes on the British middle classes with a climbdown on taxes which only affect extremely rich foreigners working in the City of London.

What a surprise

John Lilburne, London, UK

A typical communist view from Labour. If you do well in society you get punished no wonder people are looking to leave this country after 10 years of excessive tax and waste.

Labour took over a strong economy and have slowly erorded it with taxation and a policy to subjigate the middle classes so that they can be at the same level as the lower classes and flattening the class system they dispise.

So I am to become a drug taker and thief and my sister will become a single mum with various fathers living in council (social) housing and state benefits. Where is the the wealth going to come from in global market UK will be bypassed in favour of Frankfurt, we have no industry and we will all be public sector workers or unemployed we will carry on increasing the loans from the World Bank till we are bankrupt and Darling, Brown and co will hav their gold plated pension. I'm alright JACK!

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

In reply to Chris from Nottingham.

This is NOT a labout government - sometime in the late 80's/early 90's the right of centre infiltrated the labour party and stole the party. Blair and all the other New Labour were never ever socialists - more opportunists.

The result is we now have a more American style of parties where the differences are small (both the major UK parties are right of centre) and thus many people feel disenfranchised and don't bother voting.

The rich and powerful lost some of their power during the last century with the rise of democratic universal suffrage and better education and living standards. I've an ominous feeling that we are witnessing the first moves as the rich and powerful disenfranchise the masses again by giving them an electoral Hobsons Choice

Brian Hancock, Rugby, UK

Vote at the ballot box - I look forward to getting rid of these incompetents!

Steve Marsh, London, UK

There are plenty of small engined, low polluting cars to choose from these days (even MPVs) . Those wishing to buy high polluting cars should pay for the pleasue.

Costas, Larnaca, Cyprus,

Tax and spend is back with a vengeance!

Ian, London, UK

I've never voted conservative in my life, but I'd be voting for them at the next election. This is the vain hope that when we get rid of labour, the government will get their grasping fingers off of the hard earned money that's in my wallet. We are being taxed into the ground by labour

Dave, London, UK

By putting more taxes on luxury cars whilst making it easier for non-doms to avoid paying tax the government is cementing its elitist credentials. They are widening the gap between the rich and the average man in the street, making it harder to aspire to the luxury cars that many people would like to own. The rich won't worry about these taxes. More and more, the winners in today's Britain are those who have sufficient income to pay. Very egalitarian of a Labour government.

Richard , Menton, France

Why does this government not simply take all of our earnings and then reward those of us who work with pocket money? It could also arrange delivery of our groceries (organic, minus packaging) along with our weekly ration of alcohol. For those of us who live and work in rural areas can we a) have a transport service and b) one that will actually get us to work on time? As far as I can see most people in this county are taxed heavily for driving to work but there is often no other option (and I car share).

Mary, Wigton, Cumbria

Brits like sheeps!

You do all they order to you!

what kind of people are you?

riccardo, brussels,

The tree huggers won't be satisfied until every Brit has his own cave.

Peter Fordham, Pego, Spain

The minds of Brown & Darling must be like a stick of Blackpool rock with nothing but tax,tax,tax running through them. If they are really serious about changing peoples car buying habits when selecting a new car why dont they make the eco friendly cars tax free that would certainly change a lot of minds. The truth is Brown has got this country into one hell of a mess and now its payback time for us and the gravy train for him and all the other greedy politicans residing at Westminister as they will simple increase there expenses claimed to cover any extra cost,again at our expense.

Dave, Mold, Flintshire

Do the government really think we are all that ignorant to believe these green taxes are based on saving the environment rather than just another way of raising taxes!

SB, London,

Oh dear this just sems to confirm a Government that is in severe fiscal trouble.

A Seymour, Peterborough, UK

It is appalling that this government thinks every budget is about raising tax levels yet again. The average British middle class person like myself is already groaning under the burden of taxation. There must surely be a limit or ceiling beyond which a government should not tax its people? Other than Maastricht, the government of John Major was miles better than this lot.

Chuck, Bristol, UK

I have to say that I think even more tax to be wasted on inefficient bloated public services is a mistake. I voted labour in 97 and don't see much improvement - just more tax and spin. It's time for a change and some fresh thinking!

Dan, London, UK

Here we go again, tax, tax, tax and more tax. When will this stop. I run my own shop and pay VAT, income tax and tax on my year end profits and now they want even more tax to run my car buy a beer and take my wife and kids on holiday. Is there no end to the amount of tax rip-offs Brown and his mob can impose on the people of this country?
Phil Sheffield. Worthing

phil sheffield, worthing, england

Wake up and smell the humous people, there is no deed, event ,act, or activity that does not generate tax, either directly or indirectly, even picking your nose is an "tax generating " activity, unless of course you don't use a tissue. The system is well and truely plugged in to us... need more money ,just turn on the tap..how about a tax or levy on lack of integrity,shortage of truth, exssesive greed, negligence and poor management of state resources.

Mike Stylianou, Croydon,

Did you vote for them during any of the past three elections?

Then blame yourself.

Paul, Prestwick,

So more tax for the masses and less tax for the super rich. Very labour party. This government behaves more and more like the Tory party everyday.

Chris , nottingham,

Only more tax will do. And the Brits dutifully pay up and say thank you.

Ubi, Edinburgh, UK

Great stuff. Thanks to Nu Labour, I now have to pay fuel tax, congestion charges, emission charges, road tax and now an extra car tax. I wonder what special tax is being worked on for the next budget?

Hamad Lone, London, England

Tax tax tax tax tax.

They've had over 10 years. When will the electorate see through this pathetic 'New' tag that has conned them 3 times ?

Jon Leigh, Southern, France

The U.K. is a wonderful country, full of good people working hard to get by. It beggars belief that we have a government whose entire purpose seems to be to make everyones' life more miserable through taxes and last minute policy changes, which have not been thought through. The whole country is a mess and getting worse. I returned in 2003 and left in 2007. Britain deserves better, until it does, I will remain non-dom.

mike, tokyo, Japan

Good to see the Brits so determined to destroy their economy and make it easier for the likes of us to compete. The ultimate green economy is not to produce anything at all - go ahead, give that a try!

Christopher H, Canberra, Australia

Don't you mean the BNP Mr W B Jones?.
Carry on taxing Old Labour! The election will come eventually!

sophie, London,

Why is anybody remotely suprised by these 'revelations', NuLabour will continue to use the 'green-label' in order to justify increased taxes, implement unwelcome 'eco' schemes, and impose fines for those who do not comply (more money for the trough). Whilst instead of tackling law and order issues, such as speeding, public drunkeness, public disorder etc, with increased policing, preferably of the real variety, they aim to use increased tax on alcohol to reduce drinking, more speed-cameras and fines! This government does not want to reduce 'green' or real crime, after-all if people stopped drinking, recycling, speeding or, god forbid driving altogether, where would the government get the money to pay their expenses!

Leslie Corrin, Southport, England

The budget is yet more of the same. If government were to look at its unnecessary size, if it were to stop over-regulating, if it properly incentivised and not penalised at each step then the tax burden could be reduced.And we would willingly be doing our bit for a green tomorrow.

The new tax on air travel will just give people another incentive to start a journey by air outside of the UK thus causing loss to the travel industry in the UK. Inbound passengers will also think of an alternative point of entry to avoid the charges on the return leg.

New thinking is clearly required but will not happen.

Patrick, Taipei, Taiwan

I do hope that this report is correct. There's something about popping down to the local filling station in me car and filling the bugger up with heavily laden tax sodden fuel and seeing the other tax (VAT) loaded on top, before nipping into the supermarket to buy a bottle of supertaxed red wine (if there's any left after the local underaged youths have denuded the shelves of their favourite red) I can drift off later that night into a self congratulatory inebriated state, thinking that in some small way I am helping Mr Darling and Mr Brown save the planet by contributing to their wonderful green fund. King Canute must be applauding them in his grave like some sort of demented seal. Thank you Mr Brown and Mr Darling for helping me to contribute in this fashion.

longfeller, Stourbridge,

It would be a refreshing change if the taxation on cars and their use took the location into account. Those with families, in remote rural areas and the islands where the option of public transport is very limited, have little choice in the type of car we purchase - or is AD agaist families living in the countryside? If that were not bad enough we already pay extra tax on our motoring to the tune of £1.26p per litre for diesel and now recent huge increases inheating oil prices to £0.50p per litre without the option of mains gas as an alternative.

Give us a break!

Neil Arthur, Isle of Arran, Scotland

i love how all their green solutions to promote greener behaviour involve taxing increases for the majority instead of tax reductions for those who make changes...if they gave a damn about the environment they'd cut all tax from green cars to really encourage people...they don't so they just raise tax on the cars that hardworking people, who pay the most tax already buy...way to encourage economic success

Rob, Madrid,

So called green taxes are not only a con, but they do the reverse of that which they are supposed to.

The more money collected by government, the more they spend and the more oil is burnt. Everything we do has an oil cost somewhere and it is immature to think that taking money from the private sector to burn in the public is going to help.

If what you want is less fuel use for the country as a whole, you either have to have lower standards of living, fewer people or a new source of energy.

This government has allowed massive immigration into the country whilst at the same time cutting funding into research. You cannot get worse.

George Ball, Diss,

More taxes disguised as a moral crusade. In reality, this government has lost touch with reality and the sooner we get rid of these loons the better. Tax is the answer to everything, but the solution to nothing.

Rob Lawson, Newcastle upon Tyne , UK

Could we please get a windfall tax on socialists in order to combat the evils of binge taxing?

Simon, Northallerton,

WOOHOO more tax!!

Phill, The Wirral, England

Here we go again - how many taxes now under New [or is it back to Old] Labour ?

Ian Payne, WALSALL,

Green taxes have actually FALLEN in the past ten years.

What we need is far higher taxes on energy, petrol etc, and lower income taxes to go with it.

Doug Pendle, Woking,

When do I get to vote this lot out? I am just about ready to give up on the lot of them and start voting BMP.

MR W B Jones, Liverpool, England (United Kin,

Sirs, Lets just say Mr darling is going to tax us all some more.
For green taxes read "more money to fight wars we should not be involved in" I for one dont care how big my carbon footprint is. I am also tired of being to feel guilty for owning a car, having a tv on stand by etc.
So going on Mr darling tax us a bit more I'm sure you'll find some high moral reason for doing it.

Colin perry, Hatfield, hertfordshire

Here is an idea, why not reduce the 40% car tax plus 17.5% VAT on eco friendly vehicles so that we can afford to buy them.
Could Alistair Darling just give me the Government's bank account details and I will arrange for everything I earn to go straight into their account. I leaving this country before the new tax on flights is introduced, and could that last person to leave Britain please switch the lights off (have to be environmentally friendly after all).
People should not be afraid of their Government
Governments should be afraid of their people.

A Miney, Liverpool, Merseyside

It's absurd all this extra tax on cars and petrol as in the UK there is a little public transport alternative. If the money was pumped into giving all large towns and cities a reasonable tram network which could then lead to a long term reduction in car use then fair enough but instead the taxes will probably just goto help keep dictators in Africa afloat and to the corrupt EU.

Michael, Cardiff, Wales