There’s a lot of enthusiastic buzz about our automotive future, which we are told will be dominated by autonomous vehicles. But there’s likely to be a downside too.
OReGO: Some year the fun may stop
Written July 21st, 2016 by Hasso Hering
For about a year now, I’ve been one of the volunteers taking part in OReGO, Oregon’s pioneering test drive of a road-user charge, better known as a vehicle mileage tax or VMT. The experience has been painless and even kind of fun. But there may come a time when the fun stops and we all […]
Will a mileage tax be mandatory?
Written November 24th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Oregon’s voluntary road user fee program is puttering along, having produced at least one surprise, and my question is: Now what? Will Oregon take the next step and go for a mandatory system of paying road taxes by the mile?
Road user fee: An update
Written May 6th, 2013 by
Our legislators continue to labor over a proposal to get some road tax money from the owners of vehicles that use little or no fuel. We’re talking here about House Bill 2453, the result of more than a decade of work by the Road User Fee Task Force in the Department of Transportation. The bill […]
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Our simple gas tax, hard to replace
Because I had never seen this posted, I didn’t know there’s an Oregon law that says gas stations must post all the fuel taxes where customers can see them.
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