On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:47 -0500, Hans Noeldner wrote: [snip] > Here in the USA we don’t even call it cheating when people drive > high-mileage vehicles…and thus don’t pay their fair share of fuel > taxes for the highways, roads, and streets they use. So next time you > drive your Prius over a road or bridge which is being repaired, thank > an Escalade or Hummer driver. (WHAT!?!? Did Hans just say that?)
I'm sorry, am I missing something? Why would someone driving a high-mileage (I assume in this context that you mean high fuel economy) motor vehicle not be paying something resembling a fair share relative to a Hummer or Chevy Subdivision?? Hummer weighs more, therefore uses more fuel, therefore pays higher tax as some partial compensation for causing more wear on the roads. Isn't that at least approximately fair (one could argue that the additional fuel and fuel tax isn't _enough_ to compensate for the ills of a Hummer) that the Hummer driver would pay more for the greater wear on the roads than caused by a smaller and lighter MV? The other part that Hans writes about poor land use planning and, I would add, lack of adequate and affordable public transit, is mostly on target, but the initial comment strikes me as rather odd. Why _shouldn't_ the behemoth drivers pay more in motor fuel taxes than the econobox drivers? If your vehicle weighs less and, therefore, causes less wear/damage, how is is it "cheating" to have to waste less in natural resources and pay less in fuel tax than the monster trucks? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
