I propose to the Government that vignettes should be priced according to the fuel consumption of each vehicle, or the environmental damage caused by each vehicle when driven. Let us say the introduction of fuel consumption or CO2 emission classes (from-to) and the pricing of vignettes according to these classes. Example: www.volkswagen.si/svetovanje_nakup/priro_nik_o_var_ni_porabi_goriva_in... My proposal would mainly benefit those citizens who have inferior cars and are indicatively poorer, and who will be most affected by the new vignette price proposed by the government. The ratio could be set, say, in 5 bands: from EUR 50 for those vehicles that generate the least CO2 to EUR 500 for those that generate the most CO2. In this way, those who have vehicles that consume a lot of fuel and produce a lot of CO2 and are often more expensive would pay more for the vignette, and those who already find it difficult to pay and have, roughly speaking, inferior vehicles that produce less CO2 would pay less. Similar criterion to the vehicle tax, e.g.: cekin.si/clanek/taxes/katere-avtomobile-bo-novi-davek-podrazil.html
The price of vignettes could therefore be linked to the fuel consumption or CO2 emissions of each vehicle, regardless of whether or not the money raised would be used to renew the roads. The current proposed government measure encourages this by producing cars of a lower height and lower load on the road. My proposal encourages much more than that: It would have at least 5 significant priority consequences: 1. Individuals would be further incentivised to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, thus saving personally on fuel purchases 2. Vehicle manufacturers and sellers would be further incentivised to produce and sell fuel-efficient vehicles 3. Slovenia would produce fewer emissions and thus pay fewer environmental fines 4. Slovenia would produce fewer emissions and thus pay fewer environmental fines 4. Less emissions would improve the air in cities or the environment, which would have an impact on the health and well-being of the population 5. We would encourage the purchase of electric cars, etc., which could fall into the lowest consumption class and vignette prices; society would thus become low-carbon, as it is bound to do under various existing international treaties. The vignette prices for electric cars etc. could be negotiated. lp