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Doesn't the gasoline tax we pay in the US accomplish the exact same thing without all the fancy GPS and central data gathering business?
by raghus 17y ago
Doesn't the gasoline tax we pay in the US accomplish the exact same thing without all the fancy GPS and central data gathering business?
- Zak 17y agoThey already have high fuel taxes there compared to the US. The majority of the cost of fuel is tax pretty much anywhere in Europe.
- sdfx 17y agoOne problem with that is, that you can't increase the tax too much or many people will refuel across the border and evade your tax that way. After all its a small country.
- m0th87 17y agoNo. If reducing emissions is the goal, gas taxes are actually superior because the price is proportional the emissions you make. This tax doesn't provide a disincentive against gas guzzlers, but they already have insanely high gas taxes in Europe. To me, this seems like a supremely over-engineered means of taxation.
- jorgeortiz85 17y agoBut if reducing congestion is also a goal, as the second sentence of the article states, a per-kilometer tax is superior. A GPS-based system can also target those who drive at peak hours and on congested roads. Given that the Netherlands is small and population-dense, they might be very interested in reducing congestion.