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Offline The Chief

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Fuel is way too cheap in this country.  So are cars, especially large ones.

lol, that's some pretty wrong-headed thinking.  I understand what you're getting at though.

Online HalfSmokes

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If you look at the state of transportation infrastructure and the lack of a budget to fix mist of it,  maybe gas taxes should be higher

Offline The Chief

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If you look at the state of ________ and the lack of a budget to fix mist of it,  maybe ________ taxes should be higher

Neither agreeing or disagreeing, but you could say that about literally anything.  I doubt you'd sell the half of the country that doesn't live in a major metro area on raising gas taxes to fund mass transit.

Offline MarquisDeSade

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Mass Transit is a disaster.  Right Minty/Linty.

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Neither agreeing or disagreeing, but you could say that about literally anything.  I doubt you'd sell the half of the country that doesn't live in a major metro area on raising gas taxes to fund mass transit.

probably not, it would be state by state. I don't think it would ever happen in Virginia since rural roads here are ridiculously well maintained (the Danville expressway serving basically no one may be one of the nicer highways in the state) If you held rural virginia to the same standard of if you want new roads, they're going to be toll roads that NOVA seems to be held to now, maybe they would change their minds.

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If you look at the state of transportation infrastructure and the lack of a budget to fix mist of it,  maybe gas taxes should be higher

Or maybe we can stop pumping 2/3s of our budget in to DHS and DoD. Seriously, they alone take up almost a trillion.

Online HalfSmokes

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Or maybe we can stop pumping 2/3s of our budget in to DHS and DoD. Seriously, they alone take up almost a trillion.

but then who feel up your kinds before they fly?

Offline tomterp

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but then who feel up your kinds before they fly?

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Online Slateman

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but then who feel up your kinds before they fly?

Brent Musburger may be looking for work soon

Offline Mathguy

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Local areas could push a sales tax on gas for uses such as mass transit.  So gas purchases would be higher in those local areas

Neither agreeing or disagreeing, but you could say that about literally anything.  I doubt you'd sell the half of the country that doesn't live in a major metro area on raising gas taxes to fund mass transit.

Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

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Uh...ok.  I thought you closet Ayn Rand types preferred market signals to regulation.  Pinkos like me would like to just have a ban on private passenger vehicles with GVW >1500 kg and >X% outside target mean fuel efficiency  :D

lol, that's some pretty wrong-headed thinking.  I understand what you're getting at though.

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fuel efficiency measured as M/G or G/M?

Offline Minty Fresh

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Mass Transit is a disaster.  Right Minty/Linty.

Maybe Linty but I love Mass Transit.  I hate the New York MTA, though.