Drivers could pay up to £1.34 a mile in "pay-as-you go" road charges under new government plans.

The transport secretary said the charges, aimed at cutting congestion, would replace road tax and petrol duty.

Alistair Darling said change was needed if the UK was to avoid the possibility of "LA-style gridlock" within 20 years.

Every vehicle would have a black box to allow a satellite system to track their journey, with prices starting from as little as 2p per mile in rural areas.
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The beeb stories doesn't mention very strongly that the system would track all of your movements in the vehicle: where, when and how fast.
It also doesn't mention all the associated costs that would be created by the system, for the black boxes, for the administration to issue the taxes for the fines they will find ways to issue (speeding, parking, traffic violations etc).

God I hate Tony Blair. Grinning ***** that he is.