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Gas Prices

MC BumSlap said:
CA voters are the ones who approved the last few gas tax hikes. So....why aren't we blaming....ourselves?
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Because narcissism. It's hard coded self-preservation caveman genetics to never accept that we're cowards, liars, enablers, and complicit piece of shit. Some are even rapists and rapist apologists, if you can beleive it..
 
MC BumSlap said:
CA voters are the ones who approved the last few gas tax hikes. So....why aren't we blaming....ourselves?
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I guess that's worth a consideration. My complaint is on the low quality we get in exchange for those taxes and that I believe Californians voted to overcome. Then again, I'm not a CA voter, so I'm even less of a consideration....but I do pay those taxes!
 
....and Iran's oil trading in USD if so.
 
And that's important. If trading switched to another reserve currency like the Euro, banks would sell off trillions in USD reserves in favor of the Euro. This would devalue the US dollar by a significant amount. Which could lead to higher inflationary costs for the American consumer. This would just be the tip of the iceberg if oil traded in Euro's for example.
 
MC BumSlap said:
And that's important. If trading switched to another reserve currency like the Euro, banks would sell off trillions in USD reserves in favor of the Euro. This would devalue the US dollar by a significant amount. Which could lead to higher inflationary costs for the American consumer. This would just be the tip of the iceberg if oil traded in Euro's for example.
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Or Yuan. Rumor has it China just dumped a bunch of US debt.
 
ThumperX said:
Or Yuan. Rumor has it China just dumped a bunch of US debt.
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Switching to the Yuan may cause two different oil price markets to emerge. One through China/Russia/Iran and those countries heavily influenced by those countries. And a Dollar/Euro zone serving everyone else. This would be a way for Russia to avoid sanctions from US/Euro countries on oil imports/exports by selling oil to China via the Yuan and using that currency to buy goods and services from China like technology, military arms, etc.

Bifurcated oil prices would become even more volatile and even more subjected to political manipulation.

However, China would have to let the Yuan flow freely in and out of the country. Which means giving up their strict controls on the currency that is currently stabilizing their economy.
 
Ridley said:
Tax shoes and socks!!!!!
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Im down to pay use tax for all my cycling. I think it’d be pennies annually even with new bike lanes going in. Cyclists and pedestrians don’t weigh enough to wear out concrete or asphalt. I bet the largest maintenance cost of bike lanes is clean off the car parts & broken headlight material, and replacing the bollards hit by cars.
 
stangmx13 said:
Im down to pay use tax for all my cycling. I think it’d be pennies annually even with new bike lanes going in. Cyclists and pedestrians don’t weigh enough to wear out concrete or asphalt. I bet the largest maintenance cost of bike lanes is clean off the car parts & broken headlight material, and replacing the bollards hit by cars.
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Can we [moto] share those lanes with you.... ? :devilish:

Price per dollar / moto is pretty good and the smile on the face is pretty evident for most.
 
Nope.

Taiwan has some good infrastructure for all the transportation. A common rural road was pedestrian lane, bicycle/scooter lane, and car/moto lane. The bicycle/scooter lane was generally full lane width. So scooters could pass bicycles safely. That wouldn’t work in the US since bicycle lanes are narrow. Some around me are even getting narrower because they are adding curbs and bollards inside the line 😡
 
stangmx13 said:
Nope.

Taiwan has some good infrastructure for all the transportation. A common rural road was pedestrian lane, bicycle/scooter lane, and car/moto lane. The bicycle/scooter lane was generally full lane width. So scooters could pass bicycles safely. That wouldn’t work in the US since bicycle lanes are narrow. Some around me are even getting narrower because they are adding curbs and bollards inside the line 😡
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at least you have something. scared to ride here with like a white lines width between me and cars/brodozers and then a drop off into drainage gully on the other side.
 
Sharxfan said:
at least you have something. scared to ride here with like a white lines width between me and cars/brodozers and then a drop off into drainage gully on the other side.
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That's like Oregon. The white line *IS* the shoulder and then it's a ditch. Most folks are pretty kind but the middle aged women seem intent on mowing me down more than any other demographic. :later
 
stangmx13 said:
Im down to pay use tax for all my cycling. I think it’d be pennies annually even with new bike lanes going in. Cyclists and pedestrians don’t weigh enough to wear out concrete or asphalt. I bet the largest maintenance cost of bike lanes is clean off the car parts & broken headlight material, and replacing the bollards hit by cars.
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I was obviously joking but they’ve tried a “backpack” tax in Washington state I believe to help fund their wildlife management via Washington fish and game (a topic for a different thread that will get some feathers ruffled) and it was quickly shot down by the wildlife viewing crowd. They like to watch their birds and bunnies, they benefit from the dollars and work by the hook and bullet crowd, but when it came time to put their money where their mouths are they wouldn’t do it.
 
Ridley said:
I was obviously joking but they’ve tried a “backpack” tax in Washington state I believe to help fund their wildlife management via Washington fish and game (a topic for a different thread that will get some feathers ruffled) and it was quickly shot down by the wildlife viewing crowd. They like to watch their birds and bunnies, they benefit from the dollars and work by the hook and bullet crowd, but when it came time to put their money where their mouths are they wouldn’t do it.
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They already have a Bicycle tax in Oregon..$15 on any bike over $200.
 
@buellistic, what does the tax go towards? Bike lanes? Like @stangmx13, adding a few bucks to a purchase like a bike for infrastructure…I could get on board with that.
 
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