There is not a person among us who has not endured a rant about how SUV owners should pay an extra tax for the damage that their gas-guzzling, road wrecking, child endangering, shameful monstrosity of a vehicle does to the rest of us. Some of us might have even been the perpetrators of such a rant. But could the idea actually come to pass?
If Governor Deval Patrick gets his way, maybe. The Globe reports that the Patrick administration is considering charging a higher registration fee for cars with lower gas mileage. Along with higher gas taxes, it's a plan to save the Commonwealth's crumbling infrastructure without charging exorbitant new tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike. But it's also a satisfying way to punish people that environmental types have long found annoying: SUV drivers. So, would you like a side of moralizing along with your highway bailout? [Globe]
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