[Troyboy1208]

Alright so I have this stuff stewing around in my head. I have many questions and since we have so many well informed posters on this site, I figured I would go ahead an put them out there.
1. As prices rise there will be less and less vehicles on the road. How will this affect gas tax revenue? Where will the revenue come from?
2. If gas also has sales tax included what is that going to do to sales tax? How are municpalities going to make up that shortfall?
3. If people are not buying vehicles, and since vehicles are so expensive, what is that going to do to sales tax?
4. Do you foresee an increase in the number of speed traps and the like to provide extra income for municipalities?
5. Will there be an extra tax that is levied each year that you own an electric vehicle that you have to pay because you are not paying to use the roads?
If any of you feel there are other major ramifications to less vehicles being on the road feel free to post them here. Thanks.

[Kingcoal]

In 1970, the situation was much worse. Back then, one in five jobs were directly related to the auto industry. GM went on strike and the economy held it's breath. These days, GM goes on strike and you hear yawns.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', 'A')lright so I have this stuff stewing around in my head. I have many questions and since we have so many well informed posters on this site, I figured I would go ahead an put them out there.
1. As prices rise there will be less and less vehicles on the road. How will this affect gas tax revenue? Where will the revenue come from?
2. If gas also has sales tax included what is that going to do to sales tax? How are municpalities going to make up that shortfall?
3. If people are not buying vehicles, and since vehicles are so expensive, what is that going to do to sales tax?
4. Do you foresee an increase in the number of speed traps and the like to provide extra income for municipalities?
5. Will there be an extra tax that is levied each year that you own an electric vehicle that you have to pay because you are not paying to use the roads?
If any of you feel there are other major ramifications to less vehicles being on the road feel free to post them here. Thanks.

[jlw61]

Unfortunately the rise in gas prices and few vehicles on the road will be accompanied by massive unemployment and/or massive migration into the cities. More people living in the city will help bring in tax revenue, but the counties will suffer.

Any revenue shortfalls will be made up with things such as higher property taxes rather than service cuts or efficiency gains until home owners start to scream. However, since more and more people will be losing their homes and not directly paying property taxes (people are stupid) they will be happy to have city hall "stick it to 'em" and that will just feed into the foreclosure problem.

The solution is massive cuts in government spending and more self reliance.

Oh, God! I can't believe i said that!

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ')If any of you feel there are other major ramifications to less vehicles being on the road feel free to post them here. Thanks.

[Troyboy1208]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ')If any of you feel there are other major ramifications to less vehicles being on the road feel free to post them here. Thanks.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ')If any of you feel there are other major ramifications to less vehicles being on the road feel free to post them here. Thanks.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ') Jeez I didn't even consider that in my initial thought.

[AirlinePilot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ') Jeez I didn't even consider that in my initial thought.

[Nano]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', ' ') Jeez I didn't even consider that in my initial thought.

[TheDude]

Must read CIBC report: $7 per gallon gas by 2010



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Over the next four years, we are likely to witness the greatest mass exodus of vehicles off America's highways in history. By 2012, there should be some 10 million fewer vehicles on American roadways than there are today -- a decline that dwarfs all previous adjustments including those during the two OPEC oil shocks." The report has a very interesting analysis of vehicle scrappage trends versus new vehicle sales that I hadn't seen before. This is going to be a double whammy on Detroit -- lower overall vehicle sales and plummeting SUV and light-truck sales.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')Carpooling is already popular - most recent stats I've seen (2004 I think) showed about 10% use nationwide.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')Carpooling is already popular - most recent stats I've seen (2004 I think) showed about 10% use nationwide.

[Mesuge]

77% alone as of 2005?

There is some serious fat meat to be cut down!
The question is how fast, is it going to outrun the export land model runaway train and the horror depletion rates?

Fastforward few years, not only are you by now carpooling with that farty sleazy neighbor almost every 4day work week of yours, but you drive a gutted interior korean econobox and only 10mi to the nearest federal "DemocracyRidersPoint". A facility which will consist of parking at former big box store and new makeshift Greyhound bus station channeling most of the passangers to the local military contractor's factory..