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I don't disagree with paying taxes at all and I didn't mean to imply that! I used to work for a paving company- a large one that built roads from the southern states to NY. I remember the owners of the company talking about the majority of taxes that we pay in NY on fuel DO NOT go towards...

Man, what ever happened to leaving people the h*ll alone? Tax this, tax that. There will come a time, as it has in all of history, when people won't take it lying down anymore. If that's worth their "tax"; they deserve everything they get.

What's so :cookoo: about that?

My first new car was a Saturn coup. It got 46 MPG on the highway and all I did was put gas in it. I should have kept it.

You gots to pay and pay... Yeah, let's lock the old man up and throw away the key for not paying his, er... the gubment's way! The clowns that sent the letter to the old man should be locked up for meddling.

Thanks for the links, clinto. If I'm reading that right, about 6% of the tax is "road tax". I wonder where the road tax is actually spent?

As I understand it, about 50% of the cost of a gallon of gas is the actual tax on it, which does not go to fund the infrastructure we drive on. I could be wrong, but that's what was being touted when diesel went over $4.00 a gallon last year.

Hmmmm... It's not a "Diesel"; it's a multifuel that burns a proprietary mixture of already disposed of crap that has already been taxed and used. We should br charging them to get rid of it! Isn't this the kind of thing that the Colonies trounced King George for a while back? :confused: