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Old 01-03-2003, 05:38 PM   #1
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Looks like another reason for Gryph and Stang to be glad they don't live a little farther south...

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Old 01-03-2003, 11:17 PM   #2
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lol I'll have to send it to my Dad.

The tax would first have to pay for the GPS implementation and servicing before the roads heh
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Old 01-04-2003, 01:56 PM   #3
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They were trying this in MN a while back, before 9/11, and it failed miserably. But then again, we have Pretty High income taxes, and high Gas taxes, (Almost 45 cents a gallon) and we have a 6.5% sales tax to boot. But the mileage plan would have irradicated the gas tax. I personally, don't want or need my whereabouts broadcasted to the state. Ig they need to find me, they can do it the old fashioned way.
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Exactly

I dont see how they could do this either. They are just looking for new ways to get money out of us.
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In Sweden we pay nearly $4.5 for a gallon of gas, of which I believe the major part to be tax. Eat that!
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That's like buying a gallon of milk over here in some places....
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Damn $90 to fill the tank? Jeez I fill the tank every 3-4 days for $20, I'd go broke.
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Well, I think it's more like $50-60 for a full tank. At least in any car I've ever driven. Don't know if I've miscalculated something along the way. It's just about a dollar a litre, anyway. We use the metric system in Sweden, as you may or may not be aware of.
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1 gallon = 3.785 liters

US $ 1.75 for 1 gallon of gas.


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Then it 'd be more like USD 3.5 a gallon, right? We pay 9.5 SEK for a litre of gas and 9.8 SEK for 1 USD. Bah! Who cares anyway. It's damn expensive, that's my point...
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And THAT is the reason you europeans have such good rail systems... Fewer roads means more room for all them people.
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Yeah, but do you know what? The company that trafficks the railways, Statens Järnvägar, formerly a Government company, went at a loss last year in the billion SEK weight-class. So, now there's no knowing what 'll happen. They have started charging inhumane amounts of money for their tickets, as if that'd help them...
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I was thinking about starting in on the capitalist/socialist debates here, then decided I didn't feel like it...
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Sounds like the movie theaters here in the states.


We did have a pretty good public transportation system here in Washington State (well in the Puget Sound area anyways). But some idiot named Tim Eyman decided it would be nice to put forth some initiatives that took huge chunks out of the state budget. Now the state is in serious debt, and the damn road construction projects planned are all cancelled or seriously cut back. People around here want to whine and complain, but not fork over the money to fix the problem. It's like they want things done for them... lazy %$#@'s!


We really only have two major freeways around here, and both get insane amounts of traffic each morning and afternoon. Think of moving 2 million people in a couple of hours, and they all have to have their own cars and drive to the opposite end of the Sound. I really didn't mind the bus... except that it took longer and I had to wait on someone else to pick me up and be on time.
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