So, you want to park outside your own house...

[jumpy]

...for free do you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6082690.stm

over my dead body!

Typical pie-in-the-sky thinking from the LibDems
I suppose all the money magiced out of thin air in this proposed scheme will be used to fund a convivial and reliably organised seat on public transport for every man, woman and child in the country then. No? Thought not.
Buses or trains, dirty, crowded, smelly, violent and perhaps most important of all; FA use if you want to get anywhere on time.

some comments:

Typical of a Lib Dem council.
I live in Cornwall and have a Lib Dem council which, as soon as they were in power decided to give themselves high pay increases and reduced the pay to council workers.

Will the council in Surrey do somethoing about the Buses and Taxis which also pollute the air.
Peter Fulcher, Pool, United Kingdom

In the end you can look at the information any way you want but the amount of petrol your car uses does not make any difference to the amount of room in which you need to park it in. Another money making exercise, you'd think they could come up with something else after all parking permits are just another way to get money off of people who have verylittle choice about it.
Amanda, Aber

I sold my car as unnecessary and cycle to work or use public transport, but I still completely disagree with any tax aimed at big cars. Why should a driver who does 20000 miles a year in a small car pay less environmental tax than someone who drives 5000 miles a year in a big one? We already have a great tax which penalises you for high mileage or for driving a gas guzzling car: petrol tax.
Chris, Reading

and finally:

We pay enough taxes already without having to pay taxes for parking our cars outside our own homes, what next a tax for when it rains.
Welsh Dragon, Port Talbot, United Kingdom

I couldn't agree more with that last one. (thought Welsh Dragon would be particularily hard hit, seeing as it rains all the bloody time in Wales hehe)

When it commes to commuting to work the sad reality is if I was allowed to work from home by my 1960's style boss then I wouldn't really need a car at all, unfortunately pigs will fly before this happens as the phb (pointy haired boss) thinks 'eye to eye' contact with your employees is where it's at in terms of office management. The fool.
I have a kickass PC at home with a good broadband connection and a much more comfortable leather swivel chair also, and with things like msn and VoIP networks I could talk to my co-workers for less than the cost of boiling the kettle to make a cup of tea - which I could also have, as opposed to that godawful stuff that comes out of the drinks machine here.
So much for progress, unless you're refering to the continual hikes in taxation this and successive governments seem to think are nescessary, in which case 'onward and upward!"
Typical money spinner politics aimed at the soft target - the motorist.

BLEARGH.