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RE: Our Cars Being Shipped Off? What?

To: The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>
Subject: RE: Our Cars Being Shipped Off? What?
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:55:50 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, The Richards wrote:

> At 07:03 PM 7/2/97 UT, you wrote:
> >>.  It was something to the effect of our cars are being bought
> >>and shipped back oversees?
>  
> At least some of the flow is reverse, as Land-Rovers have been pouring out
> of UK until recently. I understand that there has been some sort of tax
> change or the other that has made Land-Rovers less expensive to own or
> operate in UK. Anybody across the pond know the veracity of this notion?
> 
> Michael, New Bern, NC

Owners no longer have to pay the annual tax on cars over 25 years old.  
It is the equivalent of a free license; a significant saving.  Can anyone 
imagine our government doing anything like that?

   W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                  Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                  gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


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