http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=57763
I hate to copy the whole article. I think I'll just put excerpts: Lawmakers want to ease hybrid car fee Ferrioli is sponsoring a bill that would reduce the registration fee for hybrid and electric vehicles from $60 per two years to $30 � the same as for comparable nonelectric vehicles. Another bill, sponsored by Sen. Ryan Deckert, D-Beaverton, would eliminate the registration fee for hybrid vehicles altogether. ------ Oregonians spend more than $10 million per day on foreign oil, Beaton said. �Do the math, and it�s something like $4 billion a year that I can call nothing more than a hemorrhage of the Oregon economy,� he said. -------------- Furthermore, singling out hybrids because they pay less than average for the use of roads seems arbitrary because many other cars easily exceed the state fuel-efficiency average of 19.2 miles per gallon, among them the Honda Civic, and the Volkswagen Beetle, Golf and Jetta, Hagerbaumer said. Instead, she suggested charging a fee for vehicles equipped with studded tires. Not doing so costs the state about $50 million per year � about 400 times more than the gas-tax revenue lost from fuel-efficient vehicles and hybrids. --------- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
