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variable pricing for gasoline

Category: Fuel
Responses: 5 (3 in support, 0 neutral, 2 in opposition)
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allow every licensed driver a baseline allowance, say = $600 per yearprovide exceptions for those who use their vehicle for employment needsas people exceed their alloted threshold, they start to pay more for their indulgencethis is analogous in California to water usage and consumer ratesrewards people who save, and increasingly punishes those who abuse the resource; if you don’t use up your allotment, you get to keep the savings.

dtyvoll, Sep 08 2005

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This basic logic can be applied to any limited resource (as you noted). However, running the system in this manner becomes incredibly cumbersome, especially if you have separate systems for each resource.

An alternative is to just tax each resource appropriately, and then provide a regular dividend to all citizens. This is the basic idea behind the Citizen's dividend.

dumllama, Sep 08 2005

This would require a large government bureaucracy, costing more than what we save.

gkisystems, Apr 28 2008

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