In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
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> > Yet, no one expects our ROADS to be profitable.
> Again, difficult to calculate. Do we use tier pricing? What part of this
> subsidy do I pay, as a wage-earner driving two-seater (30 MPG), versus a
> truck hauling goods and using deisel? What about our commuter busses, at
> least some of which run on either propane or natural gas? Now those hybrid
> cars are looking better!

In the UK you have to pay what used to be called "Road tax" but is now
called something else.  The idea was that the tax paid for the roads but
they get far more money than is spent on the roads so they re-named it.
But it uses a tier system.  A lorry will pay 1000's of pounds and a car
about 100 pounds - depending on how "green" they think it is.
Motorcycles are even less.

And we still get to pay amazing amounts of tax on petrol.  It'd be nice
to think this is some enviromental thing but I think the government just
wants our cash.  It's been shown that the price of fuel doesn't effect
how much people use it (much) - people still go to work etc.


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