Part P government review 2010/11

Indeed. Plus:

a. if filling stations could discriminate they could simply be required not sell; but

b. the rest of us probably wouldn't be too happy to queue while insurance is checked (and then checked further when it turns out the database is out of date); and to lose the ability to pay at the pump. And it'll all add to costs of course.

And buying a foreign registered vehicle wd continue to be another way to waltz round all such checks. (The number of Romanian registered cars around here is quite remarkable. In the South East it is increasingly worth a booze cruise every 6 months to get the paperwork to show the car's not been here more than 6 months.)

And don't forget, I would be selling the fuel at somewhere between the two prices.

You first.

The penalty is much too small. However they do have to catch them first.

I'm not sure what's wrong with the idea to use fuel taxes to provide third party insurance.

I assume you have in mind universal third party insurance paid for by the government out of taxation (whether general taxation or hypothecated fuel taxes). If so I can see that would be an option, and one which might win some votes: the "right to drive" slogan might work.

Against that some (many?) might perceive disbenefits such as:

a. the safe/elderly drivers would have to pay more while the boy (and increasingly girl) racers and careless would pay less;

b. high mileage drivers (eg in rural areas, driving on business, freight) would pay more and low mileage drivers (eg drug dealers on the local estates) less;

c. more young/bad drivers with big, fast cars - after all, they (or Mummy and Daddy) wd no longer have to pay for insurance so they could buy an Impreza instead of a Fiesta etc;

d. no incentive to avoid accidents if the "right to drive" is universal and inalienable;

Works for me if you throw in free chips ;)

It's too simple. I've recommended it here a few times in the past, and it works reasonably well in all the countries where it is in force.

On the other hand, most cars without insurance have other dangerous faults, and removing an excuse for a "random" pull might have undesirable side effects.

Most have a limit - pretty low - on claims from a third party.

/Mode=Ironic Which, of course, makes it impossible to even *consider* setting something similar up in this country. Mode/

That's not an idea let alone a better one.

anpr.

Well leaving things as they are is a better idea than the brain dead idea you came up with.

It took me 3 seconds to work out how to bypass your superb suggestion.

So tell us how that would stop me buying fuel for someone that is not insured and pumping the fuel between the cars tanks?

You have not thought this through have you?

Well there is nothing to stop criminals conspiring other than the law now. The fine and the lose of your license should be enough to discourage you. Maybe branding you would help too.

You are the one that came up with with an idea to make it easier for the criminal

Why do you wear a pointed cap with a D on it? What does the D stand for?

or ryvita...

Well there you are.. I said nothing about implementation or what transponders, etc. would be fitted to the car yet you know how to beat them. You must be far brighter than I give you credit for.

I don't mind going first......