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发帖数: 2424 | 1 San Francisco Area Officials Considering Per-Mile Driving Tax
Golden Gate Bridge photo by Flikr user omninate.The downside of fuel
efficiency: Going farther on a gallon of gas means less money going into
local and state coffers in the form of fuel taxes to fund transportation
infrastructure, such as roads and bridges. While gas taxes have worked for
decades as the most efficient way to spread the pain by making drivers pay
at the pump, more fuel-efficient vehicles combined with fewer miles driven
overall have caused transportation officials to seek more creative ways to
reap revenue, such as converting interstate highways to toll roads.
The always forward-thinking and environmentally conscious Californians in
the San Francisco Bay Area have come up with a novel way to raise money for
roads and public transportation, while also potentially reducing traffic and
automobile emissions: charging motorists a tax for every mile they drive.
Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of
Bay Area Governments recently authorized a study of a possible vehicle-
miles-traveled tax as part of a larger environmental review of
transportation options for the area.
Under the proposal, drivers in the nine-county Bay Area would be required to
install GPS-like odometers or other devices in their vehicles, and would
pay anywhere from less than a penny to as much as a dime for every mile
driven. Based on current Bay Area driving patterns, such a mileage tax could
raise up to $15 million every day.
But the idea could take a decade or more before it’s launched. Metropolitan
Transportation Commission spokesman Randy Rentschler acknowledged that the
concept could prove tough even for the notoriously liberal Bay Area
residents to swallow, and that they would likely reject the idea of both the
travel tax and the government-mandated tracking devices.
“The last thing we're interested in is where you go and what you do,”
Rentschler said, according to the San Jose Mercury News. “What we're trying
to do is get people to figure out a way to raise revenue that they could
support.” And since San Francisco likes to consider itself one of the most
European of U.S. cities, maybe the residents would feel comforted by the
fact that a survey last year by the European Commission found that a
majority of Europeans would be happy to pay higher taxes for driving more,
as opposed to the current flat-rate registration and road tax. And many
European Union countries also include in their car tax system a charge for
carbon-dioxide emissions per kilometer traveled.
The Mercury News pointed out that pilot studies of mileage taxes have been
conducted in Atlanta and also in several communities in Oregon and
Washington. Drivers in those studies logged fewer miles when they were given
a sum of money and then had amounts deducted based on how much they drove. | h*********n
发帖数: 11319 | 2 Those cute liberals deserve every bit of this.
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【在 w**e 的大作中提到】
: San Francisco Area Officials Considering Per-Mile Driving Tax
: Golden Gate Bridge photo by Flikr user omninate.The downside of fuel
: efficiency: Going farther on a gallon of gas means less money going into
: local and state coffers in the form of fuel taxes to fund transportation
: infrastructure, such as roads and bridges. While gas taxes have worked for
: decades as the most efficient way to spread the pain by making drivers pay
: at the pump, more fuel-efficient vehicles combined with fewer miles driven
: overall have caused transportation officials to seek more creative ways to
: reap revenue, such as converting interstate highways to toll roads.
: The always forward-thinking and environmentally conscious Californians in
| i****x
发帖数: 17565 | | g********b
发帖数: 8461 | 4
因为他们调快里程表。不过估计你会说那BMW更倒霉。
【在 i****x 的大作中提到】
: 这跟honda和nissan有什么关系？
| i****x
发帖数: 17565 | 5 不会，我没有那么twisted thinking，会把平均2%-4%的差异想成20%-40%
【在 g********b 的大作中提到】
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: 因为他们调快里程表。不过估计你会说那BMW更倒霉。
| d*s
发帖数: 699 | 6 哈哈，liberal真是自作自受啊，选了这么2B的政府就无条件支持吧，反正喜欢被管着 | f****l
发帖数: 8042 | 7 人家说了是根据GPS了。你自己的odometer不算。
【在 g********b 的大作中提到】
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: 因为他们调快里程表。不过估计你会说那BMW更倒霉。
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