[Chewbacca]

"the only way to enforce this is to read the odometer during the yearly inspection and levy the tax based on miles driven since last year."

That could be contested in court as a violation of the interState commerce clause. How does the State taxing you know how many miles you spent driving within its borders?

[BobL]

This is Post 95, and no one has yet disputed the claim that the gas tax is failure.

So I will dispute it. We are being told that these hybrids are so efficient that soon cars are going to use so little gas that there won't be any gas left to tax. One morning, the state will wake up and find no one using gas anymore.

YEA RIGHT!!!!

At the same time we're being told that we need higher fleet MPG, because we're so dependent on imported oil. So which is it?

The idea that California drivers are getting so green that they will barely use gas in the future is a total FABRICATION (even though it's hooked in some Toll Road supporters here in Texas). Yes there are few hybrids - and if they get great mileage and cut into overall consumption a bit, then increase the gas tax by an extra penny - DAAAAAAAAA.


This reminds me of the Air Bag // Seat Belt argument. We kept being told that we had to have air bags because no one wore seat belts - and people would not tolerate seat belt laws. But then once we got air bags, seat belts had to be worn for the air bags to work properly, so seat belt laws got passed, and we wound up with the worst of both: Laws that require seat belts, and pyrotechnics in our dashboards.

Just an example of how government can manipulate us.