Free Lunch wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:46:58 +0900, in misc.trans****t.urban-transit
> Miles Bader <miles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in <87tzjq46zh.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>> Jym Dyer <jym@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> =v= Of course, massive oil subsidy is the only reason that
>>> wasteful trucking has been competitive (false-economical) with
>>> rail in the first place, but rising oil costs are starting to
>>> make some things undeniable.
>> There's also the massive subsidies to maintain the highway system in
the
>> first place -- you constantly see complaints that trucking is
>> responsible for 90% of road wear, but pays very little of thath cost.
>
> Trucks pay for a share of the road through taxes or tolls, but they do
> have to share with others.[...]
Does a 5-axle truck with a gross weight of 80,000 pounds pay 5000 to
10,000 times as much as a sedan in taxes and tolls? If not, the truck is
getting subsidized on how much fatigue damage it causes to the pavement.
--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
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