In a sense, Gene is right. As an insured driver with more than one vehicle I am paying for all of them simultaneously while I can only drive one at a time. The obvious answer to this is to insure the driver, not the vehicle but that would take too much $$$ away from the Ins. Co's.
And yes we digress from the road tax subject. The only road taxes we pay here are gas taxes, tolls and tickets.....
One of the FEW advantages to living in South Jersey is the lower fuel cost. We are probably one of the lowest in the country, but then again the condition of our roads sucks too. Gas yesterday was $2.27 a gal. for regular.
That IS lo, surprised, for NJ, everything there has been hysterrically higher than Faryland over the years....used to driver through there and never stop for gas on account of it....
it's cheaper than here in Jax Fl.....last I looked....
thing that is strange, Jax is the largest city in this nation...AREA wise....so the annual mileage on a typical vehicle is about twice the national average....some 20k+/year.... very common to find 5 y/0 cars on the lots at 100k+ miles.....
so talk of road taxes.....but still the typical complaints of shitty roads....
at least we not bad off as Northern Virginia, land of perpetual construction....traffic was a cluster fuck there for some 40 years I knew of, somehow methinks it's not better.....:twitch:
still have to figger a way to pay for roads, they not cheep, when some 60k lbs goes flying by every damn day 1000X over yet....
I remember a old college friend, Transportation major....wanted to form his own trucking company....or run one.....
with the onset of the interstate hwy system under construction back then, I wonder how he managed long term...probably pretty good, in the late 60's I ran into him as he owned one of the quick Camaro's on the track....
everything we buy is subject to a road tax.....one way or another....
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