Petrol prices set to rise next year as MPs divert funds to buses - DutchNews.nl
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Petrol is set to become more expensive from January 1, after MPs backed a proposal to raise excise duties by a narrow majority. The tax on a litre of petrol will increase by 5.6 cents, with diesel up 3.6 cents and LPG by 1.3 cents, if the changes go ahead. MPs supported a ChristenUnie plan to redirect part of the money originally intended to keep pump prices down towards public transport. Earlier this year, the cabinet agreed to extend temporary...
  • Roggebrood@feddit.nlEnglish
    21·
    10 hours ago

    This sounds great, but to put it in context:

    In 2022 the government decided to temporarily lower the tax on petrol with 17 cents (and also reductions for diesel and lpg) , as prices were skyrocketing. It was initially for 1 year. This was then lengthened a number of times. In the beginning of the year, the right-wing government decided to cut back public transport spending. So with this decision, we will again lengthen the tax cuts for petrol for 2026 and 2027, but with about 1/3 less than the previous years. That part will go to public transport.

    • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      16 hours ago

      We actually already have that since a while. It’s worked pretty well. There are gonna be a few changes, relatively minor but they do have some impact.

      • Flights up to 2,000 km away + Caribbean areas of the Kingdom = keep same flight levy of about €30.
      • Flights of 2,000-5,500 km become about €50.
      • Further away becomes around €70.

      44% are in support of it, 33% has no opinion on it, and only 26% is opposed. Most flights are within Europe.

      The expected impact is that most people will then decide to fly closer. There have been talks of making the public transit pass cheaper, which could then attract more people and quicken the recovery from covid.

      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        22·
        15 hours ago

        There’s an argument to be made that flights less than, say, 4 hrs should be taxed more, as a train can easily and more efficiently handle that trip. What with the pre-checkin time, it gives a good 2-3 hrs buffer for transfers. Flying from London to Amsterdam is just silly.

        • bryndos@fedia.io
          6·
          11 hours ago

          Eurostar has annoying pre-checkin times too though at least for London - they recommend over an hour.

          I think that does make it faster to fly even with 2*airport to centre transit times - though extra time for checked bag in an airplane might just swing it back the other way.

          If you could turn up for eurostar 5 minutes before, like a normal train it’d probably be better.

          • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            11 hours ago

            Those pre-checkin times are needed because the queues are insane. There should be much higher capacity at rush hour