Vehicle excise duty on ‘gas-guzzling’ 4x4 vehicles increased by £40, while zero-emission vehicles escaped any charge, in chancellor ~Gordon Brown~ rsquo;s Budget this week.
Brown also stuck to his guns and rejected calls from ~David Cameron~'s Conservative party for the climate change levy to be scrapped. But environmentalists claimed research showed that increasing vehicle excise duty to £210 was not enough to affect behaviour.
~Jenny Jones~ of the London Assembly Green Party, said there needed to be a £300 gap between the different bands of polluting vehicles to encourage ‘a substantial shift in buying habits’. Brown also froze the duty on fuel until September, a move welcomed by the Freight Transport Association for ‘not adding to the industry’s enormous fuel costs’ – although it would have liked the duty to be frozen for a full year.
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