RTA. I don't see the word "replacment" in there. I say it's a suppliment.

From the original CBS news article...

Uuh.

Sorry, that's just fluff created by the reporter that wrote the article. Not an official statment.

Now that's a much better point. However if you keep the gas tax and add a milage tax, you still stick it to the SUV's but also have enough money to keep the roads up.

Do you have something supporting this supposed "supplement" claim? I've heard about this several times and have ALWAYS heard it referred to as a replacement.

I'm siding with Darkbeer on this one.
Moonliner, the one hole in your argument (for me, at least) is that you ignore the fact that people who bought Hummers and SUVs knew exactly what they were getting into when they made their purchase, just like the folks that bought hybrids.
Luxury costs, plain and simple. It's not a liberal thing or a conservative thing, it's an American thing. And it's not a bad thing.
I consider myself slightly left of center on most issues, yet I was incredibly incensed when people here in SF were defacing SUVs in The Mission district.
I don't think there's anything wrong with buying "nice things", just don't go all socialist when you realize you have to pay for the privilege of owning them.

Heck, there's no point in just making it a supplement. Why not just raise the existing gas tax? This seems completely superflous if they just want extra tax flow, what with the expense of setting the system up.

I lease my car with a milage limitation on it and now there's a thought of limiting or charging more for the milage I do use.

What's the point in driving a fun, fast little Mercedes then????????


Joyless turds!:mad:

what model of little mercades?