GASSED IN CALIFORNIA: The increasing number of Californians who drive gas-conserving hybrid cars worries the people who collect the state gasoline taxes, reports Bill McKibben (Orion, March/April). With decreased tax revenues, they fear they won't have enough money to repair the highways. So they've come up with the idea of placing a box in every car that will record how many miles each vehicle drives and then taxing owners on the basis of miles rather than how much gas they use." That should make all the Hummer owners happy: they'd end up paying the same amount in transportation taxes as those who drive hybrids.

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