In article >,
Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote:
>Even at $3/gallon, the cost of gas is only a miniscule fraction of the
>true cost of owning and operating a personal automobile on public
>roads. Now, if drivers paid all those costs DIRECTLY in the form of
>user fees, instead of having it subsidized by everyone via taxes, THAT
>would be a barrier to unlimited consumption.
According to a USDOT study in 2001, 91.2% of people who go to work do
it by car. And 92.1% of all households have at least one car. If drivers
_aren't_ paying the "true cost" of automobiles, who the hell is?
Not only are drivers paying the "true cost" of automobiles, they're
paying to subsidize that 4.9% of people who go to work by public
transit, too.
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result in a fully-depreciated one.
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