Both Aldi and Lidl locally have been rebuilt/refitted in the past couple of years. They have far more frozen and chilled units with doors/lids. But there is nonetheless a part of each which is darned cold. Especially when you go from a warm/hot day outside in short sleeves/shorts... But they are much, much less noisy.
I might be wrong on this, but I think France doesn't do car tax anymore, but just put a few cents on the fuel. ..so it is basically a milage based tax. So I see that becoming the norm. Probably a yearly car tax ..based in the weight of the vehicle or maybe the purchase price , and then a measure of the milage consumed. There is no practical way of roadtaxing electricity. .. Whatever the difficulty of colouring LPG, fades into Schrödinger insignificance, when colouring electrons.
I fully agree. We already have the annual MOT inspection with mileage recorded after three years on the road so it will be simple to adapt that by having owner declared mileage at the end of each of the first two years when renewing VED (road tax). Then an additional compulsory MOT for any vehicle changing hands within the first three years would complete the record and detect any under declaring by the owner. That would have the added benefit of ensuring the vehicle being sold within three years is roadworthy for the new user.
There is something I don't like about that simplistic approach.
I don't really see why the big flash jobs should pay more for using the roads than a smaller car. If the argument is that they do more wear and tear ..well ok , have a road tax based on vehicle weight and power. But the big car will be paying more in initial VAT anyway.
Higher purchase cost - yes, hence more VAT, yes. But there is a huge difference between the wear and tear from one which does a typical mileage and another that does 100,000 a year. That is in no way accounted for by the purchase price or VAT levied on it. So some mechanism for encouraging low impact motoring rather than high impact and adjusts accordingly would be desirable.
As Danidl says, that could be by the VED (road tax) element. We used to have that of course, based on capacity, but that was dropped not long ago in favour of a single car rate, possibly in anticipation of e-cars which don't have a motor cubic capacity.
Another Lockdown?
More likely a Mossad spy undercover with a box of matches.
The most likely cause is letting the chip pan ignite. Galley fires
Well it certainly could have be CE marking as Coke.
I think it had engines rather than multiple banks of oars.
Are chips halal?
Only if they have been hung upside down and had blood drained from them.
In large metropolitan areas, halal has also come to casually mean Middle Eastern cuisine. In New York and other cities with food truck cultures, halal carts and trucks are seen as sources of dishes such as falafel, shawarma, and flavorful kabobs. Some of these food trucks have developed a following, which, in turn, has led some halal-style food truck owners to open restaurants serving the same Middle Eastern cuisine.
