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February 14, 2008

Should our car usage be taxed by the mile?

  • ODOT last year finished testing a tax on miles driven instead of per gallon of gas. A similar test will begin next month at six locations across the country.
    • By MARGIE SLOVAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Photos courtesy of ODOT [enlarge]
    A volunteer in Oregon’s road-user-fee program talked with U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters after the pilot program was launched in 2006.

    HOW LONG CAN WE FUND roads with the gas tax?


     
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