Posted on 07/15/2015 3:44:23 PM PDT by QT3.14
Excerpt: ... The agency [ODOT] wants to move away from fuel taxes and instead charge drivers based on the distance they drive.
ODOT officials have been conducting a decade long search for ways to do it—and it’s turned into an unfocused, meandering and expensive effort.
The latest plan: Starting July 1, the state is seeking as many as 5,000 volunteers to pay the state a mileage-based rate rather than taxes at the gas pump.
The pilot program, called OreGo, relies on drivers signing up with one of three companies that will supply plug-in devices to count the miles.
But the plan is already troubled.
ODOT is struggling to find ways to lure drivers of hybrid and other fuel-efficient cars into a program that could penalize them for using less gas. According to OreGo’s own Web-based calculator, cars that get better than 20 miles a gallon would actually pay more under OreGo.
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lol. I’m going to steal that one.
When the folks do, then when there is a shortfall of revenue they add a surcharge. Go figure.
Feel free, I did.
While heading north on the NJ Tpke. I stayed in the EZ Pass lane towards the GW Bridge.
There was no toll booth until I actually got to the bridge, but the non EZ Pass vehicles had to stop and pay several miles before the Hudson.
They scanned my Pass and charged the count without my even slowing down.
This is an ominous development.
Yup, maintain the current tax for gas guzzlers, and implement the new tax to get them dastardly green vehicles. I love it!!!
Here in Ohio, the electric company did such a good job convincing ppl to reduce their consumption, which the ppl did, that the electric company had to raise rates to make up for the shortfall in order to continue to pay employees and employee bennies. You just can’t make this insanity up!!
Worry not!
Within four months of such a thing being mandated, some high school sophomore will have developed a plug in that will halve or quarter the actual mileage driven.
I have faith that my fellow Americans will do anything possible to confound government.
Only place I got for them to plug into is my cigarette lighter. Y’all reckon that would work?
Splitter cable. But more likely, the state will sell your data to the insurance companies. For your own good.
You’re right!!
8 bucks on Amazon.
So both Flo AND the state can keep up with us.
Problem solved, thanks.
I am curious. Elected officials did this? Is it what the people who elected them WANTED, or was it something the “elected” officials just did themselves because they thought it was “best” for everyone?
It’s Oregon.
They’re a lot like California.
Yes, elected officials did this....we live in the commie state of OreGONE
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Exactly what I was going to say. We will have two taxes now for drivers.
Good suggestion!
How will they tax the people living in Kansas that have their vehicles tagged in Oregon Will the miles they drive on Kansas roads be calculated?
Nooooooooooo
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