On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Martin Castle wrote: > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/sign > this is a paste from the mail sent to me:
Like any sort of publicity campaign, chain letters are always better when somebody writes from the heart, rather than copying and parroting another's words. > [..] because we drive a car or bike, Oooh, I have a bicycle and I do ride it on the roads. It's a folding Brompton one and doesn't have a petrol engine. The Brompton also travels on high-speed railways, passenger ferries and aeroplanes. > The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having > to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill Lots of people actively choose to purchase a television and get 'tracked', and do so very willingly. > A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in > one month. "A non-working mum who walked her kids to the local school half-a-mile away for a month soon saved herself over 100 GBP in fuel and tax, in addition to giving the whole family more exercise and a safer journey to school." > Somebody will know where you are at all times. Lots of people choose to carry a switched-on cellular phone. GSM phones carry a unique EMEI number. This provides tracking to approximately 100m in the populated areas of virtually every country in the world; *not just in Britain*. Virtually everyone chooses to pay the associated costs and continue to do so "in case they get cut-off". > so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit Generally when people choose to speed, they take that choice intelligently and fully-aware of the surroundings and the situation. Somebody who "accidentally" ended up speeding would be somebody who was *not* in a fit state to be driving. > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ Perhaps I could interest you in some of the suspected root causes of government mis-expenditure; lots of them involve huge multi-billion pound tendered IT projects, that over-run. I think that /is/ on topic. Two of these /do/ appear on the petitions list; http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/trident/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDcards/ -Paul -- Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three. Southampton, GB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
