There are lots of things I'd like to do "virtually every weekend" but can't afford to. So you may have to learn to live within your resources.

To me, charging by the mile is the most sensible suggestion there has been for years - at least it would tend to stop people making unnecessary journeys which simply clog up the roads. And as congestion is rapidly increasing, it tends to suggest that it doesn't "cost enough already".

I think maybe that suggesting this would be the end of festivals is something of an overreaction - one could make the same argument for every activity. Over the very long term, if motoring was made too pricey for the majority of people, then leisure motoring would decrease, tending to make people concentrate more within their local community, rather than travelling around to reach entertainment, which surely wouldn't be a bad thing?

cheers, Terry