U-turn on vehicle excise duty?

Most likely. The Telegraph is reporting that Alistair Darling is thinking twice about the retrospective "green" taxes introduced in the last Budget. Good to know that someone in this Government is waking up to the lunacy of the whole idea. They claim that the punitive rates of tax on environmentally unfriendly cars is necessary to "change behaviour". But if so, why apply that tax to cars that have been on the road since 2001? In such cases, the so-called offending behaviour has already taken place, and more importantly, was not "punished" at the time. Why punish a man for buying a car 7 years ago, long before the green tax greed infected tax policy?

Who will rid us of this clueless bunch of incompetents? It would all be so hilarious were it not for the fact that they are causing proper damage to everything they touch.

Still, the u-turn is welcome news, if true.