Fines or taxes? Choose.

Traffic fines in Delhi are repressive and usurious, varying from Rs 500 to Rs 25,000. mycarhelpline. "Traffic police in Mumbai have collected Rs 5.79 billion in penalties since the introduction of the e-challan system in 2019. HT. In Delhi's neighboring city of Gurgaon, "Data by traffic police shows that cops issued around 810,000 challans (tickets) and collected around Rs 179 million in penalties for violations between January and June 2023," TOI. No country in the world forces motorists to get pollution certificates every few months or pay a fine of Rs 10,000, as is the rule in Delhi. CNBC. To force people to pay their fines owners are to be blacklisted which would stop them from selling their vehicles, getting insurance or pollution checks. This comes from a socialist mindset wherein anyone owning a car is a running dog of capitalism and should be fined out of existence. With the highest average salary in India being Rs 20,730 per month in Uttar Pradesh (Forbes), these fines are more than the monthly income of most people and they would have to cut down on essentials to be able to drive. This would leave roads clear for our masters, who are designated as VIPs, or Very Important Persons, or even VVIPs, or Very Very Important Persons, who can then drive uninterrupted with their retinue of security, wrote Prabhat Kishore. All at taxpayer, expense of course. The problem is that Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world. On 3 November, "New Delhi again topped a real-time list of the world's most polluted cities complied by Swiss group IQAir, which put the Indian capital's AQI at 640 in the 'hazardous' category,..followed by 335 in the Pakistani city of Lahore." Reuters. This is totally unacceptable. Our masters are having to breathe this dirty air which is worse than in Pakistan. A study by Chandra Bhushan and colleagues found that "India emits approximately 5.2 million tonnes of PM2.5 annually," of which, "Astonishingly, 82% of this comes from biomass burning and industrial activities." Cooking with firewood, dung cakes, agro-residues and charcoal contributes 38.7%, industry contributes 29%, burning crop residue 7%, and heating in winter by burning combustible garbage make up most of the pollution. So why the focus on cars? Because targeting biomass burning or industry will affect poor people who make up the vote bank (wikipedia). The only way to eliminate vehicular exhausts is to go electric. However, electric cars need to be charged and 53% of electricity was generated from coal in 2020-21. A typical lithium battery in an electric car weighs 450 kg and contains 11 kg of lithium, 14 kg of cobalt, 27 kg of nickel, 40 kg of copper, and 50 kg of graphite, plus 181 kg of steel, aluminium and plastics, wrote Vivek Kaul. Extracting all those metals will need enormous amounts of fossil fuel. India consumed 1027.92 million tonne of coal in 2021-22. pib.gov.in. The government collects 28% GST on cars (siam.in) and another 4% to 16% in road tax (creditmantri). If they penalise cars to extinction they will lose all the taxes. Time to choose.