Re: This is what scares me more than anything
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, if we leave it a simple gas tax, govt is rewarding electric vehicles > by letting them use the infrastructure cost-free. But I'm okay with that if > the behavior benefits society. > > ***just where do they get all that electricity? > If I ran the world -- nuclear plants? > The opposite inclination is to create a complicated usage tax which may > encourage behavior that is a detriment to society. > > ***how would the per mile tax encourage bad behavior? A gas tax could encourage one to get a more efficient vehicle regardless of how many miles you put on it. Mile tax makes the efficient of a vehicle less of an issue. > EV and hybrid > vehicles still save money in gas taxes and still get tax credits. Is this > just being whiny that their lot in life isn't even better? So, Karl, I guess you're in favor of this mile tax? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot