Scrymarch . # .

Coming and going: These taxes don\'t go where they\'re supposed to, but raising the prices of products is a very good way to move people off it.  William Pitt taxed windows, and everyone bricked up their windows.  And carbon production is something that needs to be decreased.

Now ideally taxes might be used for something useful, or even related to their imposition, but hey, income tax isn\'t used to create employment.

Disruptive techs are well and good, but evolutionary tech goes a long way too.  You can predict evolutionary tech, all you can do is create an environment for disruption to happen in, and for energy high petrol taxes are part of that.  When disruptive techs come on the scene they need evolution to get a widespread market.  This happened with lightbulbs and microchips.

Petrol tax is almost the only tax I\'d be happy to see doubled rather than halved.  For consistency it should be bundled in as a carbon tax.  I think you\'re flat out wrong when claiming car use is unrelated to petrol prices too, recent research suggests the opposite .