Telegraph: Changes to car tax were criticised as a blatant revenue-raising exercise despite the Chancellor’s claim to be introducing the measures to help clean up the environment. The higher rates of vehicle excise duty (VED) being imposed on buyers of new vehicles were among a string of changes that Alistair Darling declared would help create "an environmentally sustainable world". But – unlike for all the other main green tax changes unveiled yesterday – the Treasury did not list the …