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California readies pay as you drive tax test

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Ashlem, Oct 20, 2014.

  1. SageBrush

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    I keep reading that road wear is to a large degree related to the weight of the vehicles that travel on them. I'll support per mile taxation if the fees take vehicle weight into account. And yes, Repubs: that means commercial trucks!
     
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    Plugin's are a teeny minority, so they're easy to pick on - compared to the monolithic trucking lobby. Sure trucks pay MORE than teeny cars, but then a big rig may be hauling 140,000 Lbs+ for several hundred thousand miles a year ... truckers road tax isn't proportionally such a huge amount of dough, comparing car weight/average drive, against trucker's distance traveled and behemoth loads.

    Problem is ... our legislators are missing their goenads. Otherwise they'd drop the hammer in fuel/inefficient trucks. THAT's where the real revenue could come from ... not the minority of plugins. Legislators have been notorious for doling out giant incentives to special interests for decades. They COULD just consider plug-in's "tax free" as an incentive. After all, making 'em more affordable in theory means more buyers. More buyers means less fuel wasted ... less pollution ... less health problems ...etc. It won't get us out of meddling in the middle east ... but it's a start
    ok ~ all done preaching to the quire
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    Something about that typo is funny. Were you thinking of preaching to a squire ?
     
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    We have new HOT-3 lanes here on the I495 Beltway not getting as much use as expected, but
    No trucks allowed! and I think the company ( Transurban) probably just feels, that's fine so not much wear and tear and many years before Asphalt resurface needed.
     
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    Maybe there are 25 people reading this thread.
     
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    Ah! A quorum of choirs
     
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    Pls remember guys, I'm from KY, we're a little slow here. Took me a while to get that. Thanks Sage.
     
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