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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Virginia Makes an End Run Around Gas Taxes - The Daily Beast

Virginia Makes an End Run Around Gas Taxes - The Daily Beast: "It seems somewhat perverse. For years, the federal government (and many state governments) have provided significant financial penalties to people who purchase and use gasoline profligately—i.e. gas taxes—while offering significant financial incentives for people to buy gas-sipping hybrids or electric vehicles. And why not? We’ve decided as a society that it’s good to discourage the use of expensive, polluting, imported oil as a transportation fuel."

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