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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : " A new tax for electric and hybrid vehicles has been announced by the chancellor in the Budget.
53% : Under the measures, an electric car driver clocking up 8,500 miles in the 2028-29 financial year is expected to pay about £255 - about half the cost per mile that petrol and diesel drivers pay in fuel tax.
50% : The new tax is about "half the fuel duty rate paid by drivers of petrol cars", according to the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
48% : It recognises that the introduction of the tax "may increase the likelihood of motorists choosing to clock their vehicles", and said it was looking at ways to mitigate this.
38% : " The fuel tax cut (kept at the same level since April 2010) is "being reversed" - ie fuel tax will go back up - but even so, this is a perverse incentive which seems unlikely to get people to stampede to electric vehicles.

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