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Subject:Re: Alert for Oregonians-new tax for miles driven?
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, H R wrote:

> 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".

This is stupid...the last thing we want to do these days is discourage
people from driving high fuel efficiency cars.  I can't believe the Oregon
government is being so shortsighted.

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