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Filled up for $1.91/gal the other day here in Texas... thought the little dust-up with Iran last month might nudge prices up, but we were largely unaffected. If the Dems regain power, I have no doubts that they will use higher taxes at the pump to support their Green New Deal.

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2 hours ago, TXUSMC said:

Filled up for $1.91/gal the other day here in Texas... thought the little dust-up with Iran last month might nudge prices up, but we were largely unaffected. If the Dems regain power, I have no doubts that they will use higher taxes at the pump to support their Green New Deal.

Dems consistently raise gas taxes when the gas price is low, knowing many won't complain until later when the gas price is high, but by then it's futile to complain!

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8 hours ago, Fog said:

When travelling the other day I paid $2.19 and noticed that about $.70 gal was tax.

The fuel tax was supposed to go exclusively for maintenance and upgrade of the roads infrastructure. Then it began to be diverted to  greenways and mass transit and light rail and other non roads infrastructure projects. 
 

As vehicle MPG has improved less fuel is sold, thus taxes per gallon must increase. 
 

With hybrid and electric vehicles little or no petroleum fuel is required, do a mileage tax will come. And too soon that will apply to normal fuel burners as well. 

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38 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

The fuel tax was supposed to go exclusively for maintenance and upgrade of the roads infrastructure. Then it began to be diverted to  greenways and mass transit and light rail and other non roads infrastructure projects. 
 

As vehicle MPG has improved less fuel is sold, thus taxes per gallon must increase. 
 

With hybrid and electric vehicles little or no petroleum fuel is required, do a mileage tax will come. And too soon that will apply to normal fuel burners as well. 

Some states are putting a big fee on annual registration of hybrid and electric vehicles to compensate for the lack of gas tax.

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3 hours ago, deputy tom said:

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Drake's Well, Titusville Pa. tom.:cowboy2:

Many years ago during the first "gas crisis", I read a reprint of a full page newspaper ad from PA around 1918 or so, claiming that  we were coming to the end of all the available petroleum and would be facing an energy crisis.  Then there were periodic claims to that effect up to present day.  Now we export petroleum.

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6 hours ago, railfancwb said:

The fuel tax was supposed to go exclusively for maintenance and upgrade of the roads infrastructure. Then it began to be diverted to  greenways and mass transit and light rail and other non roads infrastructure projects. 
 

As vehicle MPG has improved less fuel is sold, thus taxes per gallon must increase. 
 

With hybrid and electric vehicles little or no petroleum fuel is required, do a mileage tax will come. And too soon that will apply to normal fuel burners as well. 

AND, since the .gov cannot trust citizens to accurately report our mileage, all cars will be equipped with an IOT tattler to report to the .gov how much we drive, and how fast, and whether we drive safe, and whether we drive angry, and whether we cuss...

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2 hours ago, gwalchmai said:

AND, since the .gov cannot trust citizens to accurately report our mileage, all cars will be equipped with an IOT tattler to report to the .gov how much we drive, and how fast, and whether we drive safe, and whether we drive angry, and whether we cuss...

If they can, they will!

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6 hours ago, gwalchmai said:

AND, since the .gov cannot trust citizens to accurately report our mileage, all cars will be equipped with an IOT tattler to report to the .gov how much we drive, and how fast, and whether we drive safe, and whether we drive angry, and whether we cuss...

If/When private cars and trucks have two way GPS - which many commercial vehicles already have - there won’t even be a need to physically access individual vehicles. 

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