Saturday sits on the tandem bicycle.
Friday occurs and reoccurs.
Thursdays surprise us with a future.
Wedensday and the hump of my life.
Tuesday homework reeps harvest of gold.
Monday repersents something from yesterday.
My life in the Salt Lake Metro Area with out a car. I don't believe we should ban automobiles, yet at the same time we shouldn't create a transportation caste system, and or abuse using such a great tool. While this will be transportation dominate I will have other posts.
A couple methods could be you punch your license plate into a keypad, based on the MPG, The gallons used (you could single out rental cars and such) that could formulate miles driven tax and an efficiency tax at the same time.
It would open the rental car business so you could rent a car for an hour or two.
Every time there is maintenance a surcharge will be added to the final bill. Maintenance for the life of a car produces tons of toxic waste. Find ways to recycle these substances.
Lastly buying new car would cost you 5,000 dollars extra. While buying a used car would cost an extra 1,000. This would be an additional expense to what you pay now.
This solves all of the problems you won't solve now.
First we have no money to fund transit. With this initial cash flow and the continued revenue from rider ship. You will.
Second raising the MPG does not solve anything; it only adds to our problems. This is as we have seen the number of miles driven has gone up. So now something met to deter causes to use more. With a miles added tax you pay for your mileage and you pay for your own vehicle IE truck, compact, motorcycle, etc.
Third the biggest waste of resources is not recycling our old cars back into circulation and or keep your current car longer.
I surely do not want to impose such costly measures, however you continue not to conserve. There needs to be balance or a balance will seek you..
Update
An oil balance just found them and we are not even at summertime.
Decades of neglect and enormous problems lay just ahead. I am scared as hell and I don't own a car.Rain strikes here and there, yet with radar you can do errands with out to much hassle.
Wow a three pad Helio.
Ponder this
How many trips will an urban vehicular/driver take? I average 2 round trips daily.
How many trips will a motor vehicular/driver take in a day?
I will tell you something.
An urban vehicular/driver (on the same trip or If I die part way that portion) trip will take 6 to 7 times longer than your highway adventure, and 2 to 5 times slower on our surface streets.
Why waste your life away in an automobile, collecting fat, when you can read the paper on transit, workout while you commute, or enjoy the pleasures of walking.
State | Deaths | Deaths per Million Population |
---|---|---|
Alabama | 6 | 1.32 |
Alaska | 2 | 3.05 |
Arizona | 27 | 4.70 |
Arkansas | 3 | 1.09 |
California | 110 | 3.06 |
Colorado | 11 | 2.39 |
Connecticut | 5 | 1.43 |
Delaware | 3 | 3.61 |
DC | 3 | 5.42 |
Florida | 122 | 7.01 |
Georgia | 20 | 2.27 |
Hawaii | 7 | 5.54 |
Idaho | 3 | 2.15 |
Illinois | 25 | 1.97 |
Indiana | 13 | 2.08 |
Iowa | 7 | 2.37 |
Kansas | 3 | 1.10 |
Kentucky | 7 | 1.69 |
Louisiana | 12 | 2.66 |
Maine | 1 | 0.76 |
Maryland | 12 | 2.16 |
Massachusetts | 11 | 1.71 |
Michigan | 21 | 2.08 |
Minnesota | 10 | 1.96 |
Mississippi | 4 | 1.38 |
Missouri | 3 | 0.52 |
Montana | 2 | 2.16 |
Nebraska | 1 | 0.57 |
Nevada | 14 | 6.00 |
New Hampshire | 1 | 0.77 |
New Jersey | 16 | 1.84 |
New Mexico | 4 | 2.10 |
New York | 40 | 2.08 |
North Carolina | 25 | 2.93 |
North Dakota | 2 | 3.15 |
Ohio | 19 | 1.66 |
Oklahoma | 6 | 1.70 |
Oregon | 9 | 2.50 |
Pennsylvania | 14 | 1.13 |
Rhode Island | 0 | 0 |
South Carolina | 22 | 5.24 |
South Dakota | 1 | 1.30 |
Tennessee | 7 | 1.19 |
Texas | 49 | 2.18 |
Utah | 6 | 2.51 |
Vermont | 1 | 1.61 |
Virginia | 10 | 1.34 |
Washington | 7 | 1.13 |
West Virginia | 4 | 2.20 |
Wisconsin | 14 | 2.54 |
Wyoming | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Total | 725 | 2.47 |
Puerto Rico | 15 | 3.85 |