Unfortunately I live in Vancouver Washington next to Oregon and can not see
how on earth they would ever impose such a law in such a liberal state.
This may be pointed at the trucks which seem to suffer at a large amount of
laws.  It is funny that the first thing to stand out was the rights
violation statement...

The NW is known to have the voters vote in laws to reduce taxes while
complaining about the lack of public services available after the tax cut.

----- Original Message -----
From: "H R" <harald_nancy_vw@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:17 AM
Subject: Alert for Oregonians-new tax for miles driven?

> 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\POL200
30102a.html
> Harald
> '90 westy
>
>
>
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