I can't see it working.

Everytime the goverment gets involved it adds a management and regulatory
burden that will become unmanageable.

Just suck it up and raise the gas tax.

No new technology burden please.

Plus the feds and the states will have to settle on a standard system.
Hah!!!



"Elmo P. Shagnasty" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> Tim McNamara > wrote:
>
>> The damage each driver causes to the roads is based on how many miles
>> they drive and only vaguely on how much gasoline they burn; from that
>> perspective a mileage tax makes more sense than a gasoline tax.
>
> In one of my college economics classes way back when, the professor
> discussed the fairness of weighing your salad bar puchase and paying per
> ounce vs. per plateful. Interestingly enough, many students used the
> "it's not fair" cry on the per ounce method...