I'm not sure

if what is meant by "a green tax of £3,300 on new cars" announced today means to replace car registration tax, or whether it means an extra sales tax.

I think that it means the latter, to be accompanied by a thumping increase in tax on fuel.

Have they thought it through? £3,300 on a small family car will be a savage increase for people on limited means, as well as on companies.

I can imagine owners running their old cars into a polluting old age, and putting up the price of second hand cars, which will also be a problem for those on limited means. Never mind, they can travel on polluting buses, and take an hour longer to get to work, because their homes and work do not lie on the same bus route.

But it's all in a good cause! (What happens if people like Christopher Booker are right, and those they quote, and man-made damage to the environment has been wildly exaggerated? We shall all have a cold, dark, impoverished old age for nothing.)