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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Our simple gas tax, hard to replace

Written April 7th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

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.


The other side of robot cars

Written June 6th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

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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