Edmunds.com | Inside Line | Auto Observer Your Account | Help | Directory
You are here:
![[F]](http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/townhall/webxicons/site.gif){kind=small}
Forums
Automotive News & Views Is a Higher Gasoline Tax Good Or Bad For America?
849 messages, Last post on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM
You are in the Automotive News & Views Forum. Your Hosts are steve_ & claires
|
"The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center. A federal commission, after a two-year study, concluded earlier this year that the road tax was the "best path forward" to keep revenues flowing to highway and transportation projects, and could be an important new tool to help manage traffic and relieve congestion." Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax (McClatchy)
|
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 5:29 pm)
|
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (Jul 01, 2009 5:48 pm)  I used to have my electric meter read remotely in Anchorage. The truck would drive down the street and pick up the radio signals; fast, accurate, no dog bites or tromping through the snow. Here, they still do it manually, and some months they skip my house and "estimate" my usage or they just misread the dial. I don't think I'd like a pay by the mile system where you'd have to keep track and submit your own odometer readings, even if it was an IRS additional line item. The more automatic the better. Doing an annual smog test is a pain, now I have to fool with another form?
|
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 8:48 pm)  Then nothing is perfect.
|
|
|
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2009 4:44 am) That's a great idea: base tax on number of people benefitting from being allowed to use a road in the car. Think how much tax we could collect and spend in DC. We could call it the "capital rally tax" since it's per capita. Most people would never catch on to how sneaky it is as a new tax because they'd be busy being impressed by the name, same as with "cap and trade." We could include pets in the chip implantation because we could say it's to help protect and care for the pets, and we can tax their use of roads as well for people who take their pets with them. |
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2009 4:44 am) Digital Angel does talk about GPS and RFID herd management on their web page.
|
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 8:48 pm) Who would pay for retrofitting the existing fleet of vehicles? And if these were like Speedpass and not built-in (installation labor?) to the ECM or such for hundreds of different models, I could just sit this little transmitter on the shelf in the garage every other day?  I think gas-tax should stay collected at the gas pump, except those with electric vehicles would get charged a flat-fee each year. |
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (Jul 02, 2009 8:28 am) |
|
|
Replying to: kernick (Jul 02, 2009 8:35 am) Big whoop, they could stick a Saturday night special in my face at the pump and fill up on my tab too. Does everyone stay up nights thinking up all these nightmare scenarios? No wonder parents won't let their kids walk to the bus stop - Freddy Krueger is on every corner. Sheesh. |
|
You are here:
Forums
Automotive News & Views Is a Higher Gasoline Tax Good Or Bad For America?
New? Join Now!
Forum Tools
Search Forums
Browse by Vehicle
Browse by Board
Browse by Topic
Today's Chats
