Transport
Parliament considering a cap on the maximum number of hire cars
The size of the region’s fleet of car hires could be capped. | Photo: Gemma Andreu
Palma26/11/2015 00:00
Parliament’s tourism committee has approved a motion raised by the El Pi party for a study to be made into whether or not to apply a ceiling to the number of hire cars there are in the Balearics. The proposal, presented by Josep Meliá of El Pi, was accepted with the support of PSOE, Més and Podemos, with the Partido Popular and Ciudadanos opposing.
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There won't be the need for so many hire cars when the tourist tax comes in.
What Steve says pretty much covers it. I might add, "when you reach bottom, STOP DIGGING!"
Another dopey idea not thought through. Let the market decide. Once politicians try to suppress a free market, disaster is usually the result unless there is a pressing social or security need, and car hire is hardly a matter of national security! If you reduce supply then demand will initially increase prices, then tourists (who are the major customer of car hire companies here) will look at their potential costs, then add in the tourist tax, and then go elsewhere.Are Mallorca's politicians really so stupid as to destroy the island's main source of income? Preposterous.