home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!leland.Stanford.EDU!ledwards
- From: ledwards@leland.Stanford.EDU (Laurence James Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.020310.1906@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1jvcnfINN8em@werple.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 02:03:10 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <1jvcnfINN8em@werple.apana.org.au>, speednut@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Jose) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> The big argument FOR petrol/gas taxes over here was to (apart from
- |> ecological reasons etc) try to get back some of the money spent on the
- |> maintenance of the roads. The trouble with charging a tax by the
- |> litre/gallon is that it doesn't correlate to the size of a vehicle. I
- |> can drive a heavily laden utility doing untold damage to the edges of
- |> roads and yet get similar km/l [mpg] results as a "hotted-up" car. I
- |> pay the same amount of tax, yet do more damage.
- |>
- |> Even though it may be seen as some type of panacea for halting the
- |> production of greenhouse gases, paying for roads, et al, it definitely
- |> isn't.
-
- yes, I would think the one sure way to stop people from driving cars is to
- take all the gas tax money and pump it into rail transit infrastructure,
- whilst letting the roads go completely to hell 8-)
-
- Larry Edwards
-