Alert for Oregonians:
Soon you may be charged for each mile driven, if the new
vmt, or vehicle miles travelled fee, will be introduced.
The proposal is to either
1)  install a GPS (global positioning system) device in each vehicle
to track each mile driven on Oregon roads, and then send you a monthly bill.
or
2) install an odometer sensor in each car which calculates the mileage
and transfers data by radio, then charges you extra for each mile at the gas station.
According to Oregon state government, the problem is that there are too
many fuel efficient cars, and they don't use enough gas to pay their
share for road repairs through gas tax.
Jim Whitty, administrator of Oregon's Road User Fee Task Force,
said in an interview,
"If everybody had high mileage cars, our road system would fall apart
from lack of revenue".
Sounds like a Friday joke, but it's not.
Here's the link:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200301\POL20030102a.html
Harald
'90 westy

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