05-21-2015, 09:47 AM
(05-20-2015, 09:17 PM)Benton Wrote: We encourage people to drive hybrids to use less gas, then complain because they don't use enough gas to support the taxes they require to continue.
Well, they didn't really think it through. They hadn't raised the fuel taxes enough to compensate for the lower gas consumption and now their budgets are hurting. I mean, hybrids and electric cars cause just as much wear and tear as regular cars, so the funds are still needed, they just aren't getting the revenues anymore.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
