There are major costs besides road maintenance and building, such as health costs of pollution medical (National Health Service) and other costs related to accidents, costs of policing. Back in the late 80's Pollution Probe in Toronto published a study "The Costs of the Car" which estimted that charging all costs to fuel would result in a total gasoline price of $5 to$6 CDN per Imperial gallon. the price would be almost double now. Also, the more roads the less land there is for other uses and the lower the tax base to pay for ever increasing roads and infrastructure. The ultimate solution is charges for road use; difficult but becoming easier with the advance of computers and electronics.
Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Chris lloyd wrote: > > If you are talking about hybrids that use electricity the government > gets the fuel side tax but would have a rough time implementing a zap > tax for charging the vehicle but its not out of the question they may try.< > > Here in the UK we buy a licence to use our vehicles on public roads, I pay > about 280 dollars a year which is far more than is required for road > maintenance/building. Chris. > > Wessex Ferret Club > www.wessexferretclub.co.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
