Quotation: Radical reform The Netherlands levy mileage instead of vehicle tax The Dutch are taking a new path in climate protection. Instead of the old-fashioned car tax, car owners will pay three cents per kilometre from 2012 onwards. The government hopes that the reform will reduce congestion and CO2 emissions. (…) By 2018, the fee will gradually be increased to 6.7 cents. (…) For the calculation of fees, all Dutch cars with special GPS systems will have to pay a They collect the mileage travelled and send the information to a central government fund which collects the money from the accounts of the vehicle owners. Information about the route is not to be stored for data protection reasons. (of course not )http://www.spiegel.de/auto/current/0.1518,661303.00.html Quote: Overall, the number of road kilometres travelled by Dutch cars will decrease by 15 percent, as more people will be able to travel by car. In addition, there will be seven percent fewer deaths per year. PS The Dutch Greens – as to be expected – don’t go far enough. Of course, everything that means less than a ban on motorized individual traffic, is not going far enough by nature. PPS I bet in Germany there are already a number of control freaks in politics and people who, after complete monitoring of the traffic, will be able to make their way around. n drive and speed craving.