LOWER FUEL TAXES COULD BOOST EU GREENHOUSE GAS SAVINGS, EXPERTS SAY
February 1st, 2008
BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris
REDUCING the level of fuel taxes and introducing a levy based on distance travelled could be one way for European governments to meet their ambitious targets for cutting transport emissions, according to experts at a round-table meeting, hosted by the International Transport Forum in Paris.
Stef Proost of the Centre for Economic Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, suggested that this system would be the most cost-effective should governments eventually decide to impose some form of 'green' taxation on general road ...
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