Just scraped this news item (I think) from a Twitter feed: Oregon Adopts Its Own Climate Change Laws Unwilling to await Congressional action on climate change legislation, Oregon's governor last week signed into law a package of bills designed to level off greenhouse gas emissions from that state by 2010. Included in the package of bills are measures promoting home use of solar energy, energy efficiency upgrades for homes and businesses, and power plant emission controls. Construction contractors in Oregon should look forward to increased work in these facets of the construction business. I know there's a greenhouse gas bill sitting in the Senate that has already ben passed by the House. Understand it's a cap-and-trade bill. Anybody know how the Oregon rule or the bill taking shape in Congress might affect contractors? Going to require carbon credits to offset CO2 emissions from diesel equipment, or is there a company-size limitation for these first steps that will keep most contractors out of the carbon-trading business? Appreciate any insight y'all might have. Larry
Over here Larry they introduced a scheme where on new vehicles the cost of road tax was directly related to the amount of co2 produced,for the main most of the small diesels vehicle road tax devalued with only the upper end diesels getting hammered where the cost was in excess of E2000 p.a.
Stock, I should probably know this for sure, but let me confirm: That's the European Union, right? Does this reg apply throughout the EU? Do you know, roughly, where the break is that defines the upper end that's getting smacked? Thanks, L
No these regs were for our little patch basically any vehicle belching out more than 225g/km has a road tax of €2,100 pa.cheap motoring my aaaa.