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In article <D.Nash-1511941247110001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>,
Donald L. Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu> wrote:
>In article <micron.101.0017CBDB@5a.com>, micron@5a.com (Mike Ronn) wrote:

>I own one vehicle and I pay tax on one vehicle.  You own four vehicles but
>pay tax on only three.  One of your vehicles is a freebee.
>
>Let me clarify my point: *All other factors being equal*, a person with
>one car and one bike pays less road tax than a person with two cars.  Both
>people own two vehicles and both get the same rights and privileges on the
>road with both their vehicles, but one pays less tax for equal privilege
>than the other.

  Equal privileges? Get your ass on a bike and ride donw a busy street and tell me
that its an equal privelege! You are not protected when you ride a bike and
if some bonehead like you gets hot on the road we make the supreme sacrifice.

 Lets straighten up some things: 

1. Bikes do not require the same load capacity as cars and trucks and do not damages the 
roads at any significant fraction of the rate as cars do. Ever seen a pothole made by 
vicious bikers?

2. We do not have the same rights as cars (see previos comments in thread).

3. Bikers don't have the same safety margin as cars since we are not clad in metal
   like car drivers are and are thus prone to more injury in a car-bike or other
   accidents. HOw many people you know who were killed by a bike who were driving a
   car?

4. We do not polute the atmosphere while we ride. True it takes energy and some polution
   to make a bike, but compare that to cars that are orders of magnitude larger and
   its a trivial (i love that word) amount. We make less noise than your nasty little
   gas-guzzler.  Ever seen an oil stain made by a bike?

5. We can't park on the road but take up much less space.

  etc......

  Enuf Said.... Phil

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| Philip A. Carinhas                Departamento de Fisica Teorica  |
| carinhas@papageno.ific.uv.es      Universidad de Valencia 46100   |
| carinhas@einstein.ph.utexas.edu   Burjassot (Valencia) Spain      |
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| Philip A. Carinhas                Departamento de Fisica Teorica  |
| carinhas@papageno.ific.uv.es      Universidad de Valencia 46100   |
| carinhas@einstein.ph.utexas.edu   Burjassot (Valencia) Spain      |
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