Carbon tax, environmentally related tax, ecological taxation, More car owners will use public transport instead,

drive less and walk more, buy smaller and more efficient cars. Demand for diesel cars has gone up While petrol emits more carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, diesel emits more smok e and particulate matter that have worse health impacts. Repeated studies have shown that petrol price rises have only a tiny impact on d emand. The cost of petrol is comparatively low compared with life's other necessities, and rising incomes over the last 40 years have reduced petrol's share of househo ld budgets.