Should drivers pay by the mile instead of the gallon?

yes you are right, its surely not all the work of cars, i beleive in california they are taxing the crap out of businesses who fail to comply to the new green standards.

If it passes it we will still be taxed per gallon , plus the new tax per mile . They are planning on adding another 6 cents onto the 18.4 cents federal taxes per gallon we pay now.

Oh, my bad. The title says 'instead' and I didn't read any of the links.

There are still issues with that though. For example, a motorcycle and a semi-truck. Big differences in a lot of respects. Why would they pay the same amount per mile?

The laughing mouse started laughing when my mind connected jmo's statement about the government 'taxing the s*** out of fuel ' and misunderstoods bring up ' emissions'. I sat here lmao for a few moments and posted before thinking .

lol its ok as long as we are having giggles it doesnt matter

In one of the links it states that the whole deal is all about money. since we have these fuel efficient cars that go farther on a gallon of gas ,the transportation department says it is going broke . I personally am not buying into that ,, but then they did not ask my personal opinon ,,, I haven't read all the links but so far I haven't come across anything about emissions , or highway wear and tear , just about the money the transportation Dept. says it's losing out on.





I copy and pasted the title of the thread , it's the headlines of the article I linked to in the OP.
Commercial trucks have always been taxed by the gallon and the mile . well I say always , I don't know when it was implemented but I do know that for the last 40 or 50 years the state and federal government collect some pretty steep taxes both per gallon and per mile on them.

I read that the government will attach some sort of a devise to our cars that will some how make it possible for it to be read at the gas pumps and the tax will be collected when we fuel our cars.
There is a state that is conducting a test run of this very thing that is using a GPS with an Iphone to keep track of the mileage on the cars.

You would be down with what ?

Paying for the mile. My caddy gets 15 miles to the gallon.

Girl, lighten up on that lead foot of yours !!!
Put the peddle to the metal is so old school that back when it was a popular phrase gas was $.50 a gallon .

EVERYTHING is more expensive over there. However, you're also an island nation, so that's to be expected. I'm pretty sure you guys don't drive nearly as much as us either, and again that has to do with geography. We have a lot more space, so we drive a lot more to get to work, school, etc. Which, by the way, is also why I think charging by the mile is a terrible idea. It will effect the working classes far more than it would effect the rich or poor.

Yeah, from what I hear they are wanting to install a "black box" on the car that basically tells them everywhere you have been. Basically a GPS tracking device. Gas at Oklahoma county (for the county vehicles) is $2.17/gal my friend that works for the county was saying yesterday (because its tax free). Everything past that is taxes and profits. Cheapest gas I can find is $3.69/gal....so thats over $1 every gallon already in taxes and profits.


So no matter what, even if your car gets 50mpg, and cars 15yrs ago got about 20-25mpg when gas was like $1/gal, we are still paying more at the pump than we used to. Its like the governemt is trying to force people into their homes. Places like Oklahoma/Texas and a lot of other states, things are just too spread out to not be able to afford to drive.

The people barely getting by on minimum wage cant afford to spend more on transportation to and from work, I make more than minimum wage and I can barely afford gas sometimes. Add another tax to that and we will be forced out of our jobs because there is no way people can walk 10-20 miles to work everyday...especially in the summer or winter when the weather gets extreme.

Yes if this passes the transportation Dept. will be attaching a devise to your car that will keep track of the miles you drive and they said it can be 'read' at the gas pumps and the taxes owed will be collected then . I am assuming that means it will be added onto tho total of your gas receipt whenever you fuel . I was in town today and the price per gallon was posted at $ 4.32.10 .
As you said some states are so spread out that people have to have their cars . A round trip for my mother in law to go to a doctors appointment or to wal-mart is 250 miles . I have it alot better , a round trip for me to go to town is just under 100 miles.

It does not matter, it's an unimportant issue , you are just so stingy , to be thinking of yourself or others when the poor Transportation Dept. is going going going broke and you should feel so so mean to be thinking they shouldn't do everything possible to tax tax tax us all they can so they can continue thinking up ways to get more of our money ... << 110 % sarcasuim BTEW.