News from Corvallis Gazette Times:
Oregon plans to run a pilot program next year to test a vehicle mileage tax that may eventually replace the state fuel tax for motor vehicles.
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There's growing concern, Whitty said, that increases in the fuel efficiency of vehicles will cut into the state's gas tax receipts, leaving it short of money to maintain or expand the road system.
Projections are that hybrid engines, running partly on gas and partly on electricity, will be options in 25 vehicle models by 2007. And by 2013, officials expect a drastic decline in gas tax receipts.
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