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Car Forum / Toyota / Prius / February 2006

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Report suggests taxing hybrid cars

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Moe - 26 Nov 2005 12:13 GMT
 Go figure,
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

Bill - 26 Nov 2005 18:25 GMT
>  Go figure,
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

Disgusting.  Borrow 300 billion from China to invade Iraq and then tax
people for conserving oil.  I can't make any sense of it.
michael_dengler@hotmail.com - 27 Nov 2005 03:30 GMT
> >  Go figure,
> > http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

>
> Disgusting.  Borrow 300 billion from China to invade Iraq and then tax
> people for conserving oil.  I can't make any sense of it.

Thats sad I am getting A 2006 prius at the end of month and  I thought
I could dogde the
bullet but I gues they got us at all angles , There should be somthing
done about this
it seams every day we are losing the right to be free and have choices
to do with are money
as we please because it is given to us and taken away but thats where
things are going
today if we do not serve the oil god like all the rich do then we get
involved anyways with
no choice in the matter hope thing don't go to south thanks for
speaking up Michael C. Dengler!
Michael Pardee - 27 Nov 2005 13:17 GMT
>  Go figure,
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

It shouldn't be any surprise that the subject has come up again. IIRC,
Oregon (?) was looking at it earlier and may still be looking at it.

The basic problem is that fuel taxes were used as a way of financing road
maintenance in the first place. The two are loosely related, and that was
deemed good enough by the legislators of old looking for a source of
revenue... it got them the revenue stream they wanted. It was Miller time!
What is being suggested now is a familiar situation to computer
programmers - the underlying structure is awry and any attempt to fix the
new problem without fixing the structure (the tax structure in this case) is
doomed to make the problem worse.

Mike
michael_dengler@hotmail.com - 28 Nov 2005 00:08 GMT
> >  Go figure,
> > http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>
> Mike

Hi this is Michael C. Dengler agian ,What you say is so true and it is
disgusting
how the government handles are "Taxes" if they wood only budget there
money as people budget there money to handle house payments and car
payments ect.
and live within there means so that we wood not have to carry the
burden and pain of
not living free of losing A lot of money because the goverment cannot
mannage it
right they should learn to budget like the rest of us and not have a
endless pit of are money to
pull from and when the run out they shrip us of are right to live by
makeing us poor by taxing the
hell out of us I sincerly hope they do not do  this they say on the
news that they are thinking that they wood like to charge everyone 60
cents A mile driven every year  so that they can build there
roads and have A longer conpain for hybrids because they do not use A
lot of gas
that  scares me with the 2006 prius i'm am buying so what the hybrid
does
not pay A lot of tax due to the amount of gas used
I do not think people should be punished for saving the enviroment
but rewarded buy not pay a lot of money for gas and that means they
will not pay A lot of tax but
they do save the enviroment and saving money on gas should be there
reward for that car and the car cost A little more than other cars so
people of the the united states of america should have choice but the
goverment makes it harder on us so it is easier on them they where put
in office buy us so they should work for us but it seems the other way
around they just should do there best to do there jobs and  budget
money instead of wasting it if thats what we pay them to do so they
should do it or either do there best by us or do not get reelected
thats what I thinks thanks Michael C. Dengler
tklegal@gmail.com - 28 Nov 2005 03:33 GMT
Yeah - I believe that it can't be serious, but I'm gonna ask you guys,
and any one else that's angry about it to send a short e-mail to your
congressmen letting them know how you feel about it.  Taxing people for
trying to help save energy is insane!
Bill - 28 Nov 2005 04:25 GMT
> Yeah - I believe that it can't be serious, but I'm gonna ask you guys,
> and any one else that's angry about it to send a short e-mail to your
> congressmen letting them know how you feel about it.  Taxing people for
> trying to help save energy is insane!

Yes it is, but nothing makes much sense these days.  Why haven't the speed
limits been rolled-back?  What happened to fuel efficiency requirements for
SUVs?  I think the bottom line is this:  There is a buck to be made on every
barrel of oil refined.
TJim - 01 Feb 2006 22:20 GMT
>>> Go figure,
>>>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

[quoted text clipped - 46 lines]
> should do it or either do there best by us or do not get reelected
> thats what I thinks thanks Michael C. Dengler

Holy !@#$% !!! Wear did ewe learn to right???
Jean B. - 28 Nov 2005 23:38 GMT
>  Go figure,
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/
 

Well, needless to say, I don't like that idea.  Why don't they
tax the really heavy cars more first before they go after
folks who are actually trying to use less resources?

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Bill - 28 Nov 2005 23:45 GMT
>>  Go figure,
>> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/11/26/report_suggests_taxing_hyb
rid_cars/

> Well, needless to say, I don't like that idea.  Why don't they tax the
> really heavy cars more first before they go after folks who are actually
> trying to use less resources?

Were it up to me, I'd add a buck to every gallon of gas an use those
billions to fund the search for alternatives.  That would have the positive
side effect of encouraging conservation.
Michael Pardee - 29 Nov 2005 00:20 GMT
> Well, needless to say, I don't like that idea.  Why don't they tax the
> really heavy cars more first before they go after folks who are actually
> trying to use less resources?

That's the best alternative I've heard yet in terms of apportioning the cost
of road maintenance: a surtax on licensing based on vehicle GVWR.

Mike
michael_dengler@hotmail.com - 30 Nov 2005 01:12 GMT
yes this is Michael C. Dengler
I will e-mail to my
congressmen and write letter
to him too we need to stop this before they
do it it will also efect people who drive normal cars
but it will last longer for hybrid cars that what the news said if
they where to do it instead of thinking of it
we have a chance to turn it around lets come together
and talk to are congressmen and make it known that this
is not what we whant they might be able to help us Mike.
 
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