Re: [Slightly OT]. Fuel excise?????

["avachat" <avachat@dingoblue.net.au>]

Skippy <fowler9@skippy9spammeifyoudare.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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http://au.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/20000829/abcnews/967492803-416131484
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> MPs change petrol price focus to better roads
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> When will they ever use some of this money to better RAILROADS as
well?????
> When they get cars of the roads they'll be able to handle the lesser
traffic
> & make it better both in travel times & pollution
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> Skippy
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> Problem is as I see it Skippy is, the feds & states make more money from
road transport than they do from rail.
>Consider the taxes on registration and fuel. Road hauliers pay to the
governments far more than the Rail operators.

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