Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
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Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby il padrone » Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:06 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Postby Howzat » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:01 pm
Yes he does sound like a bit of a winger. Lemme guess what's next - in addition to taxing cyclists for their CO2 emissions, climate change is a hoax and carbon taxes should be repealedfoo on patrol wrote:One word comes to mind and it starts with W and ends in R.
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Re: Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby zero » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:10 pm
One of the most bizzare truths of that particular page, is that in the USA, here and the UK, the excess food required by the cyclist for fuel is also eaten by the motorists (ie essentially cancelling out any effect of cycling). the motorists just get fat.
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Postby AndrewBurns » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:15 pm
Aaaaand then a fat motorist is more of a burden on the health system than a thin cyclist which uses yet more resources. Additionally damage to road infrastructure has been shown to be proportional to the mass of the vehicle to the power of 4 so vehicles as light as bicycles cause essentially zero damage to roads during normal use.zero wrote: One of the most bizzare truths of that particular page, is that in the USA, here and the UK, the excess food required by the cyclist for fuel is also eaten by the motorists (ie essentially cancelling out any effect of cycling). the motorists just get fat.
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Postby il padrone » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:16 pm
I've sent mine.
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Postby find_bruce » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:17 pm
Ssshhh - if they realise that, being fat will be calling it carbon capture & storagezero wrote:One of the most bizzare truths of that particular page, is that in the USA, here and the UK, the excess food required by the cyclist for fuel is also eaten by the motorists (ie essentially cancelling out any effect of cycling). the motorists just get fat.
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Postby citywomble » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:57 pm
Cyclists run exclusively on renewable biofuel.
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Postby il padrone » Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:30 pm
OLYMPIA, Wash. – A Washington State Representative who serves as a ranking Republican on the State Transportation Committee may be an unlikely proponent of a tax that would require everyone who buys a bike for more than $500 to pay a $25 fee.....
.....The $25 bike fee in question was announced by House Democrats two weeks ago as part of an overall package that would raise a reported $9.8 billion over the next decade.
Unsurprisingly, he seems to have gone to ground.
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Re: Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby PB12IN » Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:50 pm
Now I have no problem with that. would be a good comback for the ferals that scream about not paying for the road.il padrone wrote:OLYMPIA, Wash. – A Washington State Representative who serves as a ranking Republican on the State Transportation Committee may be an unlikely proponent of a tax that would require everyone who buys a bike for more than $500 to pay a $25 fee.....
.....The $25 bike fee in question was announced by House Democrats two weeks ago as part of an overall package that would raise a reported $9.8 billion over the next decade.
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Postby il padrone » Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:12 pm
"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet."
Bike tax/rego won't do a single thing to stop the bogan cat-calls
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Postby Howzat » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:27 am
That's $1,500 before insurance.
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Postby il padrone » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:48 am
And I reckon to fully cover road construction and maintenance costs it'd be even more than $1500 for the registration charge.
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Postby Howzat » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:13 am
Roads spending looks like it will go up with the announcement of the new freeway in Western Sydney, costing $1 billion just for that. If that's to be paid for by rego fees - which it isn't - the $1,500 fee would be only a base level.
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Re: Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby il padrone » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:21 am
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Postby Howzat » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:35 am
It seems $25 for a bike is quite high in a state where the annual car rego fee is... $30.il padrone wrote:OLYMPIA, Wash. – A Washington State Representative who serves as a ranking Republican on the State Transportation Committee may be an unlikely proponent of a tax that would require everyone who buys a bike for more than $500 to pay a $25 fee.....
In other (depressing) news from the US, the state of Virginia recently passed a $100 fee on hybrid cars. Apparently hybrids don't use enough fuel and therefore owners weren't paying enough "gas tax".
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Postby birdbrain » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:19 pm
565 comments and from reading the first 3 pages not one in support of this morons dumb ideail padrone wrote:
Representative Ed Orcutt has evidently had a substantial flood of comment and emails. He has made a very humble apology for his poorly phrased email and misguided ideas about cyclists on the roads.
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Re: Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby Mulger bill » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:52 pm
Do I honestly think paying "rego" in any way shape or form would get us respect? Hell NO. You can't change a bigots mind. Without the rego furphy it'd be red lights/lycra/lack of flouro or any damn thing you can think of to vilify the minority.PB12IN wrote:Now I have no problem with that. would be a good comback for the ferals that scream about not paying for the road.
If I thought it would, I wouldn't quibble about $50 pa per bike.
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Re: Logic wins out for this Washington lawmaker
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:21 pm
They should pay lots more !Howzat wrote:It seems $25 for a bike is quite high in a state where the annual car rego fee is... $30.il padrone wrote:OLYMPIA, Wash. – A Washington State Representative who serves as a ranking Republican on the State Transportation Committee may be an unlikely proponent of a tax that would require everyone who buys a bike for more than $500 to pay a $25 fee.....
In other (depressing) news from the US, the state of Virginia recently passed a $100 fee on hybrid cars. Apparently hybrids don't use enough fuel and therefore owners weren't paying enough "gas tax".
Partly for the battery production.
Partly for the coal fuelled electrickery they use and partly for thinking its a clean way to use a vehicle.
Muppets !
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Postby il padrone » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:44 pm
Hybrid vehicles need not be fuelled by coal sources. This is the key question at the heart of climate change strategies - motivating the population and authorities to move to alternative sources, some of which are very plentiful. You can power you hybrid batteries by wind and/or solar.wurtulla wabbit wrote:They should pay lots more !Howzat wrote:In other (depressing) news from the US, the state of Virginia recently passed a $100 fee on hybrid cars. Apparently hybrids don't use enough fuel and therefore owners weren't paying enough "gas tax".
Partly for the battery production.
Partly for the coal fuelled electrickery they use and partly for thinking its a clean way to use a vehicle.
The batteries are probably not too much more of an issue than any current automotive power source - and likely to improve greatly with technological improvements. Look at how bicycle light batteries have changed in the past 10 years.
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Postby Howzat » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:04 pm
On the topic of whether cyclists should pay for road maintenance costs... I haven't done a calculation, but since most road surface damage occurs during the wet - potholes getting eroded away by wave action from tyres, etc - I'd wager that the majority of road surface damage caused by regular cyclists occurs when it's raining and they decide to drive the car instead.
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