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Apr 23, 2016

HEAVY LORRIES' ECO TAX * Paris, France

* Ile-de-France - Calls for eco-tax to trucks transit on 

-- The president of the Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, persists and wants to charge heavy lorries in transit. She waits by € 100 million to partially offset the deficit Navigo passes... True to his campaign promise to submit lorries in transit in the Paris region to a regional environmental tax, it takes the initiative on the subject and wishes to make the key measure of the Regional Plan of Action for air quality that it intends to complete before the summer... Highlight, Valérie Pécresse setting a strong argument for the government to reconsider the definitive abandonment of the environmental tax in 2014. It considers that part of the proceeds of this eco-tax would mop up the deficit of € 300 million Navigo passes single price that the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has committed to fund... Professional organization of road transport, FNTR Ile-de-France have reacted strongly. They said in a statement deemed "exorbitant" cost of € 100 million for carriers. "According to data from the strategic directions document for freight released in May 2012 by DRIEA (Regional and Interdepartmental Directorate of Infrastructure and Spatial Ile de France), about 242,000 trucks which circulate in the Ile-de-France each day to power the economy of the region, only 14,700 (or barely 6%) are in transit," said francilienne federation. Which notes that this tax "will cause a considerable distortion of competition between the regions"... For now, the claim of Valérie Pécresse involves open negotiations with the government. Indeed, a region has no power alone, to set up this device. A decree will be needed... 
(Photo: Paris mayor calls for ban on polluting air) Paris, France - WK Transport, by Louis Guarino - 13 April 2016

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Feb 20, 2016

GREEN TAX for TRUCKS * India

* Delhi: 20% dip in trucks entering on
-- The Supreme Court's order imposing a steep pollution tax on trucks has resulted in a 19-20% reduction in the number of commercial vehicles entering the city and a 35% drop in particulate matter load from trucks, the Environment Pollution Control Authority said in its status report filed in the court on Thursday... The move, imposed in October 2015, has also led to a 31% reduction in oxides of nitrogen ( NOx) pollution from trucks and other commercial vehicles, EPCA said in its report based on a survey commissioned by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)... 
New Delhi, Delhi, India - TNN, by Jayashree Nandi - Feb 19, 2016

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Jun 1, 2015

TRUCKING NEW TAXES * USA: Plan would make large trucks pay tolls on 17 to 20 bridges * California: CARB has imposed new stringent fuel standards = Higher energy costs for Californians

* Rhode Island - Local trucking industry cries foul over rumored tolling
-- Members of the Rhode Island trucking industry are quickly crying foul after reports emerged of a potential new toll on tractor trailers crossing the state... Joshua Werchadlo, Vice President of Riverside –based JLine Transportation, says if the Governor follows through on rumors to toll 18-wheelers, she is unfairly singling out an already sufficiently taxed industry... “We already pay for our fair share of taxes to maintain bridges and roads through something called the international fuel tax agreement based on a formula on the miles we travel through each state and the gallons purchased in each state,” said Werchadlo... “This tax would be a double tax which I don’t think is fair” ... How will the plan work? The toll would apply to trucks with three or more axles. Smaller vehicles would be exempt from paying, including cars, SUVs, motorcycles, pickup trucks, buses and recreational vehicles. The electronic tolls, which would scan vehicles as they passed under gantries similar to large sign supports, would be set up along Routes 95, 195, 295, 146, 6 and 10...
(Image found on Wikimedia commons) -- Providence, R.I., USA - 630wpro, by Sam Wroblewski - May 27, 2015


* California - Air Resources Board has become a rogue agency

-- California’s Air Resources Board, which has assumed not only the power to regulate nearly every facet of our state’s economy, but now claims powers entirely unrelated to its statutory charge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020... The problem for CARB is that it could just as well achieve its regulatory goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions under its cap-and-trade program without auctioning emission allowances. Cap-and-trade forces the same emission reductions regardless of whether credits are distributed for free or through an auction. The only difference is that, under the latter scenario, the agency raises (or should we say extorts?) billions of dollars for the state’s coffers – while imposing heightened regulatory burdens on business and, ultimately, forcing higher costs on consumers... Perhaps this is why satirist P.J. O’Rourke warns that “giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys” ... 
(Image)  --  Orange County, CAL, USA - The Orange County Register - May 29, 2015

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Oct 28, 2007

Car Tax * Finland - Should be Environmentally Friendly

Minister of Transport and Communications Anu Vehviläinen says that car taxation should be reformed to reflect environmental concerns

Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland -YLE News -27 Oct 2007: -- Emissions should govern the tax rate, and not state revenue needs, she says... Car tax falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, but Vehviläinen says that when it comes to the environment, the whole government should be involved... Vehviläinen says that her Ministry intends to make a contribution by moving greater volumes of cargo transport to trains, instead of trucks... (Image: YLE)

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