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Excerpt from ABC News:

London to slug gas-guzzlers $53 a day

13 February 2008

Owners of gas-guzzling cars will have to pay 25 pounds ($53) a day to drive them in central London from October, mayor Ken Livingstone said.

The decision, following a year of consultations, is part of a package that Mr Livingstone is bringing in to cut London's carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.

"I believe that this ground-breaking initiative will have an impact throughout the world with other cities following suit as they step up their efforts to halt the slide towards catastrophic climate change," he told a news conference.

Mr Livingstone, who has made the environment a central plank of his tenure, is facing a tough re-election battle in May in which green issues have featured heavily.

London, which generates some 7 per cent of Britain's climate-warming carbon emissions, is in a vanguard of a group of 40 major cities worldwide pooling their knowledge to play their part in fighting climate change.
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But to force home the environmental point of a congestion scheme that initially had no green goal, the exemption granted to residents in the zone will be removed from drivers of the polluting four-wheel drive and top-end luxury cars.

That means that the owner of a gas-guzzler who chooses to drive in the zone every day will end up paying $13,980 a year for the privilege.
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See - London commuters slugged.