http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/06/19/riding-your-bike-could-force-you-to-pay-motor-fuel-taxes/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Going Green. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/06/19/riding-your-bike-could-force-you-to-pay-motor-fuel-taxes/#comment-1723 Shannon Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:17:40 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/06/19/riding-your-bike-could-force-you-to-pay-motor-fuel-taxes/#comment-1723 Here is another example: <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/607113.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/607113.html. </a>Because people are buying less gas, presumably due to more fuel efficient cars and other means of reducing fuel consumption, the government is considering taxing us by the mile instead of by the gallon, and using GPS to track how many miles we drive. Again, the government is looking for ways to penalize us for reducing our fuel consumption. Here is another example: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/607113.html. Because people are buying less gas, presumably due to more fuel efficient cars and other means of reducing fuel consumption, the government is considering taxing us by the mile instead of by the gallon, and using GPS to track how many miles we drive. Again, the government is looking for ways to penalize us for reducing our fuel consumption.

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