{"id":208223362,"date":"2011-08-07T23:49:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208223362"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:49:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:49:22","slug":"tax-per-mile-driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208223362","title":{"rendered":"Tax per mile driven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from TheWashCycle by washcycle<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nA true user fee for roads would charge a fee per mile driven<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to tie this in again, road <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.org\/files\/restoring_highway_trust_fund.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lobbyists<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/coburn.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&amp;File_id=80b3458b-b6e2-470a-be24-bb82b93d10c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supporters<\/a> love to blame money spent on biking and transit as the cause for the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. But it&#8217;s clear, looking at this chart, that the cause is the reduction in the tax per mile driven that results from inflation and greater automobile efficiency and the unwillingness of Congress to raise the tax to adjust to that. If we had a tax of 11 cents per mile driven &nbsp;(as is the historical average) there would be plenty for roads.&nbsp; And we wouldn&#8217;t need to <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/small-town-reasoning-on-better-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worry about higher CAFE standards<\/a> reducing the trust fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/washcycle.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8345198c369e20154345040c8970c-popup\" style=\"display:inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gasoline tax\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6a00d8345198c369e20154345040c8970c-600wi\" style=\"width:600px\" title=\"Gasoline tax\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/08\/tax-per-mile-driven.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/08\/tax-per-mile-driven.html<\/a>oldId.20110807234922137<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TheWashCycle by washcycle &#8230; A true user fee for roads would charge a fee per mile driven &#8230; Anyway, to tie this in again, road lobbyists and supporters love to blame money spent on biking and transit as the cause for the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. But it&#8217;s clear, looking at this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208223362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tax per mile driven&#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-208223362","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\/208223362","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=208223362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208223362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208223362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208223362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208223362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}