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  • As M. Greenbank said, it's just incentivising lower polluting cars. Sound policy

    Dunno. I kind of feel that if the cars really are that gross (and are they any more gross than say other types of conspicuous consumption like frequent long distance air travel / super motorbikes / lambos / bitcoin etc?) they should be regulated out completely. Going nuts on the tax on them is icky. Looks like a cash grab, not a policy implementation.

    Ultimately it's not going to get folks out of cars, so I'm not sure why we'd be cheering it.

  • If you can get enough cash out of it to fund policies driving change from those willing to pay steep prices for status, I don't see why the govt shouldn't capitalise on the opportunity to redirect funds where they might directly counteract the issue.

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