| Updated April 9, 2012
Editor's note, this article was written many years ago, but it's interesting to see that this issue is becoming a bigger concern, especially now that plug-ins have been added to the mix. A VMT tax seems inevitable.
The Chamber of Commerce
has a problem, not enough revenue to maintain the system's
highways. One idea, tax the drivers of hybrid
cars and other alternative fuel vehicles because they
are being too efficient notes the Detroit
News.
I'd like to know which moron on the Chamber came up with
that one. Is that the way government works? Congress
spends money to get people to do one thing, then another
area of government wants to take that money away. Here,
we'll pay you to do this, then we'll tax you for doing it.
That makes sense, right?
With hybrids comprising just one percent of the U.S.
automarket, how do hybrids even come up on the radar? Does
someone have an axe to grind?
Whoever is getting paid to come up with ideas like that
needs to be fired.
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