Edie: Planned increases in car tax for the most polluting cars will be capped at £30 Hundreds of millions of pounds of extra cash will be spent on energy efficiency, public transport and environmental protection such as flood defences under measures announced by Alistair Darling last week. In his Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said £535m will be spent “more quickly” on the measures, which will create potentially one million “high-value green collar jobs”. The …