India: Greenbody asks government to increase tax on cars

Warning that the unchecked growth of cars are contributing heavily towards energy and environment insecurity, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Thursday said India must increase taxes on all cars.

‘India is in the grip of an impending energy crisis as we are consuming more oil than ever before and the growing transport sector is guzzling a lot of this,’ said a new CSE study on fuel economy in the transport sector.

The report, released Thursday here, said the 2007-08 union budget must address this ‘linkage between vehicles and energy insecurity’.

The report underlines that private vehicles account for 62 percent of diesel consumption in the transport sector. More and more vehicle manufacturers are introducing diesel variants.

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