{"id":142676535,"date":"2009-07-10T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=142676535"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:22:15","slug":"drivers-asked-to-test-alternative-to-fuel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=142676535","title":{"rendered":"Drivers asked to test alternative to fuel tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: Note how are cars paying for roads is the tax system is &quot;irrevocably broken&quot;?]<br \/>\nALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Researchers are looking for 1,500 drivers in six cities, including Albuquerque, to test an on-board computer system that taxes motorists based on miles driven rather than fuel taxes paid at the pump.<br \/>\nThat mileage-based tax is being considered by the University of Iowa Public Policy Center in a $16.5 million study for the U.S. Department of Transportation to determine whether it&#8217;s a viable option for paying for surface transportation, including roads and railroads, in the future.<br \/>\nThe gas tax over the long term &quot;is irrevocably broken and something is going to have to be done,&quot; said Jon Kuhl, a University of Iowa professor of electrical and computer engineering and principle investigator on the study.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jYNPi3-EttcOOLkKFxgDJbvNRaVAD99AHA6G0\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jYNPi3-EttcOOLkKFxgDJbvNRaVAD99AHA6G0<\/a>oldId.20090710082215134<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: Note how are cars paying for roads is the tax system is &quot;irrevocably broken&quot;?] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Researchers are looking for 1,500 drivers in six cities, including Albuquerque, to test an on-board computer system that taxes motorists based on miles driven rather than fuel taxes paid at the pump. That mileage-based tax &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=142676535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drivers asked to test alternative to fuel tax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142676535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142676535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142676535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142676535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142676535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142676535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142676535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}