It’s not an insensitive statement it’s an ignorant and bigoted statement.
It’s also about as far from reality as you can get.
One of the traits of people with Asperger’s Syndrome or autism can be an unparalleled level of understanding and detail on a subject so if you found someone with Asperger’s Syndrome utterly interested in emissions regulation and the associated tax it would be a work of art, they are very far from the stereotype that they are thick that belongs back in the 70’s.
The LPG’s get taxed on the basis of the petrol emissions as the car can be run on either fuel and there is no way to know which the driver uses and how much pollution they are generating which is what the tax is based on.
While that sounds harsh the government has tried the reverse with the new plug in hybrids where they all receive the tax as if they are being used in EV mode for a good % of the time.
This policy has utterly failed as all the corporate car lot are just renting the PHEV for the tax breaks and only ever using the ICE saving no emissions from the base ICE engine and actually making things worse as they are lugging around several hundred extra KG of unused hybrid kit.
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