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Oregon lawmakers considering per-mile tax for some drivers (no gas purchased = no loot collected)
KPTV ^ | 1/04/13

Posted on 01/04/2013 7:22:55 PM PST by Libloather

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - Fuel-efficient cars are designed to save people money on gas, but those who drive them could soon start paying a mileage tax.

The government has been collecting taxes at the pump to pay for building and fixing roads for years, but drivers of electric cars avoid the gas tax because they don't fuel up.

State legislators are looking at adding a tax for cars that get at least 55 miles per gallon, with the money going toward state roads. Some Portland residents say area roads could use the help.

(Excerpt) Read more at kptv.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: blackbox; gas; loot; oregon; taxes
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To: Libloather

The database is being assembled.

In Pennsylvania drivers are requested to submit the odomoter reading when renewing tags (only for mail-in at this point, not through the DOT on-line services) and safety inspection mechanics record the odometer onto a paper ledger.

In counties where emission inspection is required the odometer reading is digitally transmitted to the DOT as part of the testing process.

Grab your ankles—it’s coming!


21 posted on 01/04/2013 7:52:51 PM PST by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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To: palmer
RE :”It is truly stupid. My power company can buy clean and reliable power anytime they need to for about 4 cents per kWh. Buying solar from a homeowner costs them retail price, about 12 cents, it’s unreliable and not available when it is actually needed (evening hours).”

You may have missed the point.

Overall they use MORE than the solar energy they generate even if they sell some during peak summer daylight hours.
So they have to net buy some electric off the grid.

But the state mandates that the power company gives the solar panel owners $$$ so they pay zero for it.
You know where the companies get the $$. The goal is to use our $$$ to lure us into buying them, O Malley has 2016 plans.

22 posted on 01/04/2013 7:54:30 PM PST by sickoflibs (Fight like Dems, fight to win !)
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To: llevrok

Nothing more than the law of unintended consequences at work. First you listen to long nose busybodies concerned with “environmental destruction” by us humans, and laws are changed because they demand it, and what do you know, ten years later when all the vehicles get more reasonable fuel mileage, states start to notice that their fuel tax revenue has taken a pretty big hit. Of course no one factored in an economy on the fritz, people driving less, and the better fuel economy.

If I read the tea leaves correctly, all states have started to notice, and so the move to charge for travel on the highways, rather than the arbitrary gasoline tax. Going to be a tough sell I think, but then I’ve been surprised many times of late.


23 posted on 01/04/2013 7:59:10 PM PST by wita
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To: Libloather

Public policy lesson 101:

Most highway construction and maintenance funding comes from “liquid fuels taxes”.

If vehicles consume less liquid fuels there is less revenue, but their useage/damage does not decrease.

The money must be made up some way, some how.

Driving a big azz vehicle, I don’t want to “subsidize” the Prius fleet. Note that most Priuses sport Ø bumper stickers—so they are “takers” very content with that status quo.

When mileage based road taxes were first proposed in my state I protested to my assemblyman that many of my neighbors live back 1/4 to 1/2 mile or longer private lanes; therefore much of their annual mileage is on their own private property.

He responeded—correctly—that with liquid fuels taxation they are being taxed on fuel that will never benefit them directly. Same difference.


24 posted on 01/04/2013 8:04:15 PM PST by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Libloather.
Fuel-efficient cars are designed to save people money on gas, but those who drive them could soon start paying a mileage tax. The government has been collecting taxes at the pump to pay for building and fixing roads for years, but drivers of electric cars avoid the gas tax because they don't fuel up. State legislators are looking at adding a tax for cars that get at least 55 miles per gallon, with the money going toward state roads.
So, Oregon, huh? I don't suppose anyone at this "news" source knows the party affiliation of this great idea?!?


25 posted on 01/04/2013 8:12:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Libloather

Any scheme that involves GPS trackers to record mileage will not be reliable but will destroy privacy of travel.


26 posted on 01/04/2013 8:20:11 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: llevrok
What next? Telling us to smoke again because they are collecting lower tobacco tax revs?

They'll tax you for breathing second/third/fourth hand smoke.

Then they'll charge an import tax because sensors near your home measured pollutants that originated in factories in China.

27 posted on 01/04/2013 8:23:47 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: sickoflibs

i know they use more, on a cloudy day in particular they probably use 90 or 95% net power from the grid. But if they are truly paying zero for their electric bill as you say, then they are getting 90% free power on those cloudy days. That is beyond ridiculous, it is criminal, mostly because I know the company that leases the systems is cleaning up on subsidies and profit.


28 posted on 01/04/2013 8:26:54 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: Libloather

This looks like one of those rare liberals screwing liberals occasions where its just fun to watch.


29 posted on 01/04/2013 8:27:40 PM PST by Avid Coug
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To: Tublecane

Just wait until they use the tracking devices to issue you end of the year speeding tickets.


30 posted on 01/04/2013 8:30:23 PM PST by Duck Fan
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To: palmer
RE :”i know they use more, on a cloudy day in particular they probably use 90 or 95% net power from the grid. But if they are truly paying zero for their electric bill as you say, then they are getting 90% free power on those cloudy days. That is beyond ridiculous, it is criminal, mostly because I know the company that leases the systems is cleaning up on subsidies and profit.”

My neighbor says he uses more power NET than he generates but BGE pays him $3K a year just for having solar panels.

Criminal??? Martin O Malley.

31 posted on 01/04/2013 8:30:26 PM PST by sickoflibs (Fight like Dems, fight to win !)
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To: Zhang Fei

Wow... you are in favor of a tax where your every move is taxed? Talk about big brother interfering in your life. You must be kidding?


32 posted on 01/04/2013 8:33:06 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Tublecane

Pay by the mile is a reality on “express” toll lanes on several Atlanta interstates. They are using transponders right now, and compliance doesn’t seem to be an issue. Billing is automatic to your credit card.

The statewide thing will be a combo GPS and transponder system that periodically reports miles driven since the last data collection point.

I am not in this field, but am good friends with someone who is.


33 posted on 01/04/2013 8:36:24 PM PST by wrench
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To: lightman

Sucks doesn’t it, bastards try that crap in Texas will have to have a team of state workers (convicts) walking the ditches looking for electronic tracking devices. In west Texas they will have to fund state workers (convicts) to scrape horse crap off the roads. We really don’t take well to Feds and their rules.


34 posted on 01/04/2013 8:37:50 PM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: BitWielder1

“or the water from your own well”

I live in Washington state. There is presently an effort to install meters on our privately owned water wells.... and charge me for my own water.

I paid to put the well in. I have lived at this property for 30 years and now these communists want to charge me for my own damn water.

It’s never going to stop....


35 posted on 01/04/2013 8:40:17 PM PST by Gator113 (**WHO in the hell gave the damn order to NOT rescue our men in Benghazi?**)
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To: Gator113

And will they pay to replace it if it goes dry?

BWHAHAHAHAHA


36 posted on 01/04/2013 8:42:48 PM PST by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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To: morphing libertarian
"We are now dealing with addict behavior"

I posted the same comment on another thread about a minute ago. The ONLY thing that is under our complete control is how much of our money we give to grow the beast. Everything else requires others to agree, allow, participate, lead, etc. There are many ways to legally reduce how much goes to these crooks.

37 posted on 01/04/2013 8:43:56 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Libloather
Oregon totalitarians considering more mandates...

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

T.E.A.

38 posted on 01/04/2013 8:53:56 PM PST by PGalt
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To: uncommonsense

I live in cal where the state legislature is only being outdone by the Feds.

We pay no income tax with our deductions.

However this year “we” voted for numerous tax increases. Trying to get those down. Unfortunately most in cal don’t share your thinking.


39 posted on 01/04/2013 8:58:15 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: FoxInSocks

I don’t have a problem with this at all, on ALL vehicles including government vehicles, so long as it is absolutely impossible to acquire time/location information from those boxes. The gas taxes were supposed to cover road building, repair, and so on, and alternative fuel vehicles are getting a free ride. So, require the boxes, and eliminate the gasoline taxes.

LIKE, THAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN...!

We all know what the three biggest lies are. But...there is a fourth...a government “temporary tax” or “adjustment”.

Ask anyone from the Chicago area about the toll roads in the Chicago area, that were going to be “paid off” many years ago...now, they will be paid off just a few days short of the maximum entropy of the Universe.


40 posted on 01/04/2013 8:58:36 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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