article thumbnail

Scrap your car for free bus travel

Green Cars News

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

article thumbnail

Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

An affordable, convenient, safe and sustainable transport system is one that enables active and public transport, embraces changes to the ways we design and live in cities, and encourages new ideas and technologies, like Mobility-as-a-Service (Maas). . Scrappage schemes . We spend billions of dollars annually on importing fossil fuels.

article thumbnail

Is a green tax blitz justified? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

So would these tax hikes linked to the amount we pollute be justified? Is a green tax blitz justified? Put forward the idea of raised taxation and most people will complain. The 100-page report wants to double the proportion of green taxes in the current tax take from the existing level of seven per cent.

Tax 36