(CBS) College student Jayson Just commutes an odometer-spinning 2,000 miles a month. As CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes reports, his monthly gas bill once topped his car payment.
"I was paying about $500 a month," says Just.
So Just bought a fuel efficient hybrid and said goodbye to his gas-guzzling BMW.
And what kind of mileage does he get?
"The EPA estimate is 60 in the city, 51 on the highway," says Just.
And that saves him almost $300 a month in gas. It's great for Just but bad for the roads he's driving on, because he also pays a lot less in gasoline taxes which fund highway projects and road repairs. As more and more hybrids hit the road, cash-strapped states are warning of rough roads ahead.
Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."
Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea.
"Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that," says engineer David Kim.
Heard this on Rush.
'breakall' is used in 'while' and 'for' loops to exit prematurely from any and all "enclosing" 'while' or 'for' loops - it is an error to use 'breakall' outside of a loop.
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2 comments:
heard this too. People are naive if they think the "government" can't think of new ways to get our money!
And actually 2000 miles a month is not that much- it is average. I do that in a year. Dad does more. I read years ago that in our area 25,000 a year is average.
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