Is it fair or reasonable that new cars are taxed at just £30 a year?

It's time road tax was totally reformed and added to fuel prices, that way the higher road users would pay their share of tax. It would also catch drivers who don't pay tax.

I am retired and drive my camper around 5000 miles a year but still pay £270 road tax.

So called "green taxes" are nothing but a big con to extract more money from the already overtaxed public.

The government has decided to encourage manufacturers to produce lower emission cars and to get people to buy them by graduating the cost of car tax.

While the tax is less the cost of buying is higher and so are the losses from depreciation.

You are right to point out that making a car has a very high environmental cost and this is not taken into account in car tax.

I am afraid this is an issue that people have voted on and chosen the party they wanted in government. We have a lot of government by sound byte now. Sounds good but the detail is not so clear and good,

Such is the way of the world.

My 1986 car is much greener as it has lasted so much longer than many new cars but I am still hit by the car tax.

Don't know if you have noticed but we don't have any heavy industry any more, take the car industry as you have mentioned it, 90% of all parts made are made abroad we only assemble them them here so the pollution isn't ours, so it don't count, we only use the end product, so a lower tax can be put on the carbon emissions, not the carbon it takes to manufacture, you have seen the pollution in China and India, that where all the manufacturing has gone, remember all the smog and fogs of the 50's and 60's where you could walk in fog and smog and go up stairs on a double decker bus and its clear blue sky that's where its all gone

It's a 'Reward' for buying a 'greener' car.

Who is "Paying the shortfall"....? People like me, My Mitsubishi Shogun costs me £475 per year in Road Tax.