You know, it looks good on paper but will it work?
California is faced with a dilemma, it has been pressing fuel efficient cars in order to reduce the pollution and to use less gasoline. That is fine, a car thats gets 60 MPG is better than one that gets only 20 MPG, but that means the citizen is buying less fuel and therefor the state is not getting as much tax revenue as they would like. D’oh! So, as officials are pretty keen on squeezing all the tax money out of its people as they can, the idea of a ‘tax by the mile’ system have come up. That would mean that when you did have to fuel your car a GPS unit built in to your vehicle would transmit information on how many miles you have driven and the times you drove them and charge you accordingly.
So if you think your going to save money by getting one of those gasoline/electric hybrids and you live in California think again.
I wonder how they will charge people that have all electric cars. Same system but the reader is in your house? Sometimes I wonder if it would just be better to fork over 90% of our paychecks and just let the state house and feed all of us. I hear soylent yellow is quite good if you serve it warm.
States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile
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