Posted on 12/16/2013 3:59:27 PM PST by Libloather
This was 2008 and gas was about $1.25! It didn't last, but it was a great time to be driving a huge guzzling motor home.
It's official, then. Our elected criminals are not the only group that can be characterized as retards.
Seeing that the Mexicans stole all foreign investments in Mexico once before, what sort of retards would participate in "investing" in another go at getting robbed?
I will carefully examine any 401(k) investment account which deals directly or indirectly in these new Mexican "investments."
When cars get more gas mileage the revenue goes down, which is causing some to consider a tax per mile driven.
Actually they would get more money in taxes as more gasoline is sold even if they keep it at current levels.
Then the electric cars should be taxed accordingly compared to gasoline cars. put a meter on the charging box for those who want electric cars.
>>Electric cars pay no gas tax, and thus nothing towards maintenance of the road. They are freeloaders on the highways, though they cause the same wear as an gas car
Which is darn near nothing. Almost all road wear occurs as a result of truck traffic, and I don’t mean F150s.
I agree on the freeloading aspect of electric cars.
Electric cars DO cause the same wear as gas cars. But I agree this isn’t much.
Which means of course that drivers of cars subsidize the drivers of trucks.
Which is ok, because actually charging the drivers of trucks the true cost of their wear on the roads would only result in driving up costs for everything transported by the trucks, which would of course be paid by the drivers of cars.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Yep, there is no such thing as a free lunch when society has vast infrastructure - which is of benefit to everyone - and must be maintained.
What is really a travesty is that we spent all this so-called stimulus money in recent years and managed to do very little real infrastructure maintenance and upgrades.
Perhaps they didn’t do anything in your area, but in Tulsa.Oklahoma — there has been infrastructure maintenance and upgrades all over the place, It’s still going on, too.
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