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A 'designated tax' label provides another portal to collect tax money in an attempt to justify the need for more tax money. Most of it wated and yet the clamor for more taxes.
Ford is rebadging a European car and building it somewhere on this side of the Atlantic with US accents. Just compare a Chevy Colorado to a Isuzu Dmax. The shells are the the same but nearly everything underneath is different. They have our shell only. If Chevy gave us the inards of a Dmax, sales would skyrocket. But since diesel has such a bad rep (and cost per gallon), it would sit.
isuzu dmax are nothing special , i wouldnt rate them myself , the isuzu trooper used to be a bullet proof jeep around fifteen years ago but they took a wrong turn around a eleven years ago
The fact of the matter is that a man, his name is Oliver K. Keller in the late 1950's to early 1960s' invented a fuel delivery system for internal combustion engines that would deliver 50+ m.p.g., and Unocal and Standard Oil Companies bought his ideas and pending patents and killed them.
Oliver K. Keller also invented, or thought up the idea of pavement markings {highway center lines} but that idea was another which was stolen from him.
The problems of people stealing ideas isn't new. Oliver went to people who were supposedly trusting individuals, except, they were not.
Even to this day, corporate or invention trade secrets can be stolen, which is why many now employ security firms to watch over them.
on a national level, gasoline taxes don't even cover 50% of road maintenance costs and cover 0% of new construction costs. roads require heavy subsidization from other sources.
Nr does 100% of auto taxes and fees go to maintaining the roads by far. Its kif of like where the money total from huntig and fish fees and taxes go they alos support parks for one thig not necessarily hunting and fishing sports only.Few people know that hunting and fishing items are taxes at manufacture level long befor eit reach the public and it is a huge per cenatge of support for mnay aprks and recreation altho it not all go to just those areas.
It isn't the government. The EPA requirements on diesel are too strict and IIRC the EPA measures pollution in PPM per gallon and not MPG
The EPA is part of the government.
And the EPA is staffed by republican appointed CEO's, from Americas large corporations.
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Oil is gonna be very expensive soon
