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Re: idle thought on gasoline/fuel taxes
Walt,
You have WAY TOO MUCH time on your hands.
KJK
"walt peifer" <lensman@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:MFaAf.12185$vG.3735@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
: remember when unleaded fuel first cam out? You could stick an unleaded
: nozzle in a leaded fuel car but you couldn't pump leaded fuel into an
: unleaded vehicle.
:
: could we do something like that again? suppose that the restrictor plate
in
: the gas tank is sized according to fuel mileage? I.E. as the mileage gets
: worse the hole gets smaller. And the pumps at the gas station were also
: sized accordingly, so that all current vehicles and 2007 models that get
: better than 30mpg pay the current $2.35 per gallon those that got between
15
: and 30 paid 2,35 plus say a dollar tax making the fuel $3.35 and those
: vehicles getting less than 15 mpg paid say $4.35 and the pumps ran slower.
: so that a guy with an expedition had to take say 30 minutes to pump his 30
: gallons of gas. and then each new model year the standards increase so to
: get the large restrictor in the fuel tank the car had to get 40 mpg and
the
: middle sized one would go to say 25 to 39 mpg and anything less than 24
mpg
: would get the smallest plate and pay the highest price. this way current
: owners would not be penalized, and each year as the standards get tougher
it
: the new vehicle buyer who has to make the choice. I think three sizes
would
: be easy enough to do cause minimum confusion and generate big results the
: first year. If we then took the extra tax revenue and it went solely to
: energy research (wind, solar geo-thermal, fusion whatever) for other
energy
: needs (home heating, lighting etc.t) then petroleum would only used as a
: fuel for cars. and as other energy became cheaper perhaps electric
: alternative fuel cars could make a bigger dent in sales of convential fuel
: vehicles
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