Brandon Reed

Weight-Mile solves the issue of electric vehicles that is on the horizon.
When everyone can plug in their car at home instead of going to the gas
station the gas tax becomes useless.
Weight-Mile is however useless for vehicles that do not have permanent
non-resettable (or easily defeated) odometers (ie bicycles, most
motorcycles)

The road system should be supported as a public commons, everyone benefits
from it so everyone should be helping to support it.

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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jay Rideout
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] HB 3008 (license bicycles)
> To: andys@fseee.org, "obra@list.obra.org" , Pistis
> Mountain Bike Racing Team
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> Quote "Some sort of weight/mileage scheme that taxes as a function of miles
> driven and weight of vehicle (a surrogate for road damage caused) is likely
> to be the long-term solution for highway funding."
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> That part is simple... just raise the fuel tax. Big heavy vehicles pay
> more and fuel efficient vehicles pay less.
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> and... concerning a bicycle license fees, maybe purchasing a bicycle lane
> pass would be a better definition of a user fee.
> Jay
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