Yes, fuel taxes are affecting everyone...

but what can we do about it? We Brits are hopeless at complaining in an effective way simply because we are too polite to do so and the powers that be jolly well know it!

You cannot uninvent the motor car; it has been our vehicle of freedom for the last eighty years or so. It's all right for you London townies who can just pop on the tube or bendy bus but what about the suburbanites or the country folk who regard our cars as necessities rather than luxuries?

Why, oh why, do motor manufacturers still produce high performance large engined cars for our roads that have a 70 mph national limit? It's quite ironic that when we had no speed limits, the average car could only chug up to about 60 or 70 and then, only for brief periods. Now since 1966 when the dreadful 70 limit came in on a permanent basis, the performance of average family cars can exceed the ton and sustain that speed all day.

I remember when the M1 first opened, car engines were blowing up all along it because they just could not take the prolonged high speeds. I am not suggesting that we all go back to driving Morris Minors but why do you need an engine bigger than 1400 cc in a family car?

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