California, land of fruits and nuts?

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The Real Tom - 25 Feb 2005 13:06 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I heard since the decades of strigant smog controls and high gasoline
taxes has made many Californians switch to high-effiency cars. This
has caused reduced gasoline consumption per californian resident over
the years. This has cause a servere drop in tax revenue verses
projected tax revenue from years ago. Rumor has it, certain political
party wants the money, so they want include a mileage tax in your
car's registration? Since you aren't burning the gas, to pay per
gallon, now you need to pay per mile?

What truth does this have?

Thank you,

tom

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B. Peg - 25 Feb 2005 13:54 GMT

It's true. Oregon has started a pilot program already so they beat
California to it already. More understandable there since they have no
sales tax and needed a generator of some sort.
This kinda takes the wind out of buying a fuel efficient vehicle as well.
Gas will also have to go over $3-4 per gallon to "maybe" get gas guzzlers
off the road. Don't see it happening (yet) and I haven't seen a Prius on
the road in a month or more. Sure see a lot of big SUV's, H2 Hummers (i.e.
the girlie version), large trucks and the like still - although the used car
lots have a lot of the big ones, and fairly new at that, sitting in their
lots.
Looks like they want to let the potholes from all the recent rain storms
speak for the implementation of the mileage tax as well.

B~

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