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10:20:55 on Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Tim Trent
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>Wait, are we back to car insurance here? Or Road Charging? Both of
>which are "Reasonable", because you should only pay for what you
>consume.........
Some of the car insurance is dependent on where you go, and how often,
but supplying that information by way of a tracking system, rather than
a list of "type a" and "type b" roads traversed is overkill.
Similarly, I think I can support road pricing for motorways (on that
basis), but the normal roads are a national asset and I don't think we
should price by use. We don't price healthcare, education, library books
or streetlamps by "use". And being free to move around the nation is if
anything a more fundamental right than any of those.
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Roland Perry
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