Yet again another stealth tax. If these volunteers have anything about them they will refuse to participate.

The briefing contains no references to an integrated transport policy, what will happen to road tax, that is set to increase massivley next year.

Stop this subterfuge now.

Mike, New Barnet, UK

I have been reading the comments that people have been saying that this will only stop when the labour party is out of office, well let me tell you regardless of which party is in control they will both adopt this stance against the motorist.

mike, hull, uk

This is OUTRAGEOUS. Isn't that what the motorist was supposed to pay ROAD tax for? Once again the innocent driver is being used as a cash cow for the government. The arrogance of this government is TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE! I WILL NOT vote for a party that introduces this rip off scheme. I'm sick of it!

Anthony, London, England

I don't CHOOSE to use my car, I HAVE to use it! The government KNOWS this and is just exploiting this to get more income tax by stealth.
I am SICK and BLOODY TIRED OF IT!!!!!!!!!!! I pay TOO much already for the "privilidge" of driving!!!!!!!

simon jordan, Cambridge, England

Combine automatic number plate recognition cameras with the ability to know where your mobile phone is at all times (via compulsory registration of all mobiles) and you have the basis of a national road pricing system. Very clever.

Labour will only stop when they're voted out of office.

Michael, Suffolk, UK

I'm not clear if this will apply to Scotland, as they've done the England/Britain bit again. I work for Glasgow City Council and use my own car when carrying out my duties. I get 49p/mile, soon to be reduced to the Inland Revenue level of 40p. I get about £14.00/week for renting them my car.

David Glen, Glasgow, Scotland

How many people have to protest before this govt realises we don't want this? Isn't nearly 2 million web site protests enough? And you can bet that despite saying they will not use it for automatic speed fines, THEY WILL! This is just an up-front, in your face TAX!

Adrian Ryan, Donegal, Ireland

Who are going to be the "volunteers" for this? Does anyone actually WANT this? You already have road pricing - it's called fuel tax!

Adrian Ryan, Donegal, Ireland

For the people who blame 'the EU', please remember that a lot of its dictats result from things that Labour have lobbied for and driven through to have enacted, so they are still the ones who should be blamed. Their 'Blame it in Europe' stance is often quite misleading

Avana Beach, London, UK

This is the cornerstone of EU taxation. Our government have no say in the matter.

M Reynolds, london,

Assuming the British Government continue to make it impossible for the middle class to exist in Britain - as they inexorably do - who will pay the taxes, pensions & social welfare bills when the middle class emigrate?

Who will remember to turn the lights off when the last person leaves EcoBritain?

Dan, Cork, Ireland

Sam of Carlisle has clearly never lived outside an urban centre. In the countryside public transport consists of one bus an hour, and pavements only exist from one end of a village to the other. Cars are needed out here, give us a decent bus route and we might change our minds!

Katerina, Little village, England

This will discourage people from holidaying in the UK, or visiting family and friends who aren't local. This will be very difficult for elderly relatives, and indeed for small businesses. And after closing so many village post offices and railway stations people in rural areas need to use their cars

Amy Davies, Richmond, England

I can't see how it's possible to track a vehicle but not the driver benind the wheel. I'd give it a year before the data is used for many more purposes that origionally intended. Look what happened with the C charge - your every movement into and out of the zone is logged and known.

jeremy, london,

Another government database...? What are the bets on the time it will take the government to "misplace" ad CD/DVD/notebook/memory stick with the movement-data of a few million drivers...

Adrian, London, UK

We've had road charges for years, its called Road Fuel Duty.

This is just another attempt to solve a problem with a stick when a carrot would be much simpler and cheaper, but employ less Civil Servants.

Improve public transport and raod congection will improve

Richard Galle, Stourport-on-Severn, UK

Don't blame Labour - this is an EU Directive.

Paul, Rochester, UK

This is ridiculous. Assuming that 40p/litre is taken off fuel duty, and VED is scrapped, then someone in an UNECONOMIC CAR (33mpg) doing 10,000 miles a year, would need an average charge of 8 PENCE PER MILE to break-even.

An economic car would = c.6ppm.

And they want to charge up to £1.30?!?

Martin Willis, Coventry,

If anyone is under any other impression than this will be a generator of inflation then they should think again. If "Joe the Plumber" is charged more for his mileage, sure as can be he will pass this on to "Joe Public" in the form of increased charges! Yet another stealth tax....you bet!

d, LONDON, uk

We already have a perfectly good pay-as-you-drive system in place, called 'petrol tax'.

RB, Aberdeen,

If the goverment is at all interested in cutting the traffic down on Motorways, put the frieght back on the rail where it should be.All they want is to tax us the workers more and more and to give the motorways to the 'fatcats' which 'we' the public, have paid for

Graham, swansea, UK

Don't buy a house.
Don't buy a car.
Save up and move afar.

Matt, Wilts, England

Ridiculous. French Autoroutes charge 11 pence per mile, there is NO road fund licence to pay and despite this being levied in the cost of fuel. 95 unleaded is 96 pence per litre (actual costs last weekend A8 Aix to Nice and local garage - not supermarket and exch rate 1.26€ to £1 sterling).

Jim, redditch, UK

How can it be legal to charge us to use roads built with our taxes? If private enterprise wants to build toll roads, fair enough. The government is showing its complete lack of morals or ethics in even thinking about this one.

Roger Tilbury, Worthing,

Road pricing should definately be introduced even if Jeremy Clarkson fans don't like it.

It wolud encourage more people to leave the car at home and walk / bike / take the bus. Car use (rather than ownership)should be taxed much more heavily than it is, and by the way, I do own a car.

Sam, Carlisle, UK

I don't think that they realize the impact on the economy:
-more money spent on travelling to work
therefore
- less money to spend in shop: declining economy
- less people working: more people on benefit: more tax: less money to spend in shop: declining economy.

whichever way you look: it is bad

camille, surrey,

Seems incredibly stupid to threaten road pricing again, just as we enter a bad recession. Also, road pricing is a tax which is borne disproportionately by the least well-off. Well done Labour - stupid AND unfair. True to form.

David, London, UK

I wonder at the kind of people that would volunteer to test this system. A little bit like testing out some rope that will in future be used for your own hanging

Mark, Den Haag, Netherlands

Now whatever made me think that motorists would be paying for the bank bail out?I'm giving up work-I'm better off sitting at home and doing nothing.

Andy, Bristol, UK

Labour greed. This has nothing to do with global warming, this has everything to do with giving the peope no choice but a heavily subsided unionised public transport system. Labour = no choice + high taxation

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

So, the old motoring cash cows to take another hammering then!
So lets recap, 65% of fuel = tax, Annaul road licensing fee = tax, & now tolls or road pricing = tax.
If you want to reduce congestion, I suggest reducing the population back down to numbers the country can accomodate!

Pete, St Albans, England

There is no choice in the matter as this is an EU diktat. Every British person could sign a petition against road pricing and it would make no difference. The EU need money for their costly Galileo satellite system. See Http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/galileo/applications/road_en.htm

Ros, Surrey,

Just remember, that a technology that measures a vehicle movement - by definition - also measures when that vehicle is stopped.

In other words the same device will soon be used to monitor and charge you for parking.

James Christopher Penson, Hythe, UK

Given that as a service engineer I have to drive about 150 miles a day either my charging rate will escalate very sharply or I'll be out of a job.

David, Basingstoke,

Heh heh - another u turn by a swervy government.

If it wasn't for the policies of this government I wouldn't be forced to drive 490 miles a week, in my own car, with fuel bought by myself - which is one of the most taxed fuels in the EU. An annual fuel bill for myself of £2880 - just for work.

Paul, Birmingham, GB

I assume that the removal of current road tax and Fuel duty will happen upon the introduction of this? Of Course not its Labour, why make taxation of drivers fair. Luckilly,as with all Labour ventures, it will take years to implement,by which point the Tories will be in and hopefully sink the idea.

Chris, Oldham, UK

Any one who believes that it will truly be possible to tell the on board unit not to disclose location but merely which charging zone is clearly sufficiently naive to think that identity cards are fine as "if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear".

D.L. Stephens, York, England

I thought that the drivers of Britain already paid for the upkeep of the roads, the road tax. Of the vast revenue taken only a small percentage is actually used on the roads. Labour is indeed the party of tax, well Brooon does have a war to finance!

Nick, Perth, Australia

At that rate I'd have to pay £130 a day to drive 100 miles to work and back - the average commute is 30 miles so even the average commute would cost £49 a day so I guess the government is going to get my employer to up my salary at the same time it introduces road charging? Labour - the party of tax

Andrew Smith, London, UK

If anyone believes that the government will be able to resist the temptation to use an already installed system to levy speeding fines 100% accurately then I have a bridge in New York I would like to sell them!

Ian, stratford, UK