It sounds like you must live in a town.
Those of us who don't, have no alternative to using a car.
Nearest train station 18 miles from the house, and three miles from the office.
no bus from the house to the station, no bus from the station to the office.
Nearest bus 4 miles from the house, and once an hour, and only goes to the city where I would have to change and take another bus out to the office, about 2 1/2 hrs each way. I'm not going to do it.
You, and the government, bless them, seem to think that everything and everybody should work to a system that suits your lifestyle, and then we'll all be OK
Not so
Personally, I would support the government if it put the road tax up AS LONG AS ALL THE REVENUE WENT TOWARDS ROADS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
But it won't. All the road tax disappears into the treasury black hole