Why not offer tai chi or qi gong as options to yoga in schools? Those also offer mental and physical health benefits.
How do Yanks manage to bloviate fear-and-insanity-driven spew online without coming across factual evidence to negate their false beliefs? Is that what they mean by the "American Dream?"
Raise the gas tax. Fuel efficient cars tend to be lighter and cause less wear and tear. Heavy vehicles use more gas and cause more wear and tear. Gas tax is reasonably fair. You could figure out a fee for electric cars to match similar fuel efficient cars, but they are really light and cause very little wear and tear. Adjust everything for construction costs- those are frequently paid by general funds, so the adjustment could be small. Mileage based fees would be regressive. Heavy SUV's should pay more than small compacts.
@11 Yes, but the magnitude is nowhere near the wear and tear of environmental causes, completely unlike how wear and tear occurs on roads, so your analogy fails badly. Not even a good try.
Poor people with cars are screwed any way you figure it--they live too far from work, they drive crappy, old, poorly maintained cars that get dreadful mileage. A gax tax screws them, a mileage tax screws them. Being screwed is part and parcel of being "poor".
Ugh. Because I support some sensible gun controls in light of the Sandy Hook Massacre, I have to also support an executive order (a maneuver I find intensely distasteful) in order to seem them enacted? Thanks, Machiavellian GOP-controlled congress.
Lots of good stuff in here this morning. Thanks, Cienna.
A mileage tax, colected either through gps monitoring or annual milage checks is a lot more expensive to collect as well as not incentivising smaller cars. BTW charitarizing all poor people as driving giant gas guzzeling hoopties is false and probably somewhat racist. I know lots of poor people who drive sub-compacts.
Where did anyone imply that poor people drive large cars? If anything, they were implying that poor people drive old cars that typically get worse gas mileage than newer cars of comparable size. Is that not true?
What could me a more straight-forward pay-as-you-go system than the gas tax already in place? A gas tax accounts for vehicle weight, efficiency, and frequency of use (and therefore miles driven). The idea the tax is a "fixed price" is idiotic, given the reasons one burns gas.
Peg the gas tax to the cost of a gallon instead of a fixed rate per volume. Rise in gas costs (somewhat) covers loss of sales. Plus you don't have to revisit the tax every few years.
How do Yanks manage to bloviate fear-and-insanity-driven spew online without coming across factual evidence to negate their false beliefs? Is that what they mean by the "American Dream?"
Lots of good stuff in here this morning. Thanks, Cienna.
Also, interesting that people who worship a replacement for Dionysis-Osirus are questioning gratefulness for the Sun.
Which part of HELL NO, PRIVACY! don't they GET?
Where did anyone imply that poor people drive large cars? If anything, they were implying that poor people drive old cars that typically get worse gas mileage than newer cars of comparable size. Is that not true?
Unless you presume that all poor people are black. Which is what you seem to be doing.
What's up, racist guy.