Impacts of a massive new transportation challenge facing our City. | CommissionerSam.com
Is there no end to the number of ways oil culture is screwing us?
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Uhm, correct me if I’m wrong…
The City of Portland Office of Transportation, which for some reason goes by PDOT, is primarily concerned with the types of transportation that use motorways. I could not find any reference to non-motor vehicular modes of movement within the literature of this group.
Based on this, it makes complete sense for the taxes that support this government agency to be based on the number of gallons sold rather than the price of gas. If gasoline prices would rise to the point where they are lowering the amount of vehicles on the roadways, then the upkeep costs would be reduced as well.
If the taxes collected were based on the total price of gasoline, then the PDOT would have more funds available to sustain the roads, in turn promoting transportation that was reliant on gasoline.
The only modifications of this tax should be based on the fact that the efficiency of internal combustion engines is increasing. In this case, the tax should be changed to reflect that automobiles are traveling more miles on a gallon of gasoline. Therefor, they would have a greater effect on the infrastructure that government provides for their functioning.
As it currently stands, the economics of the situation are sound.
Last night I threw the TV antennae out of the window of my sister’s apartment and now I can’t watch Lost.
“Welp, I hope to someday work in the IT department at a large company.”
Way to shoot for the moon, kid!
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Apparently this is a hotly contested quotation: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Disputed
Otto von Bismark
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