More environmental problems with the Prius
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What happens in Oregon, anyone?
Posted by The Villager | April 16, 2007 3:45 PM
Nothing like that. They use the OBDII connection for analysis.
Posted by Allan L. | April 16, 2007 3:48 PM
Also in Oregon, they don't charge you for a failed test. Yet.
Posted by Max | April 16, 2007 4:57 PM
A car "fails" an emissions test for refusing to burn gas while stationary, sounds like a huge problem to me!
Posted by Gene | April 16, 2007 10:30 PM
Hey, man. It's Georgia.
Posted by Blog restoration | April 16, 2007 10:38 PM
No good deed goes unpunished department: In Oregon the DMV doubled the Prius registration fee because the cars did not use enough gas....
Posted by bobbyc | April 17, 2007 7:26 AM
When did they double the fee in Oregon? I know they used to have a $2000 surcharge for hybrids, but they dropped it.
My wife and I have been looking at new cars. We were thinking about getting a hybrid Camry. Nice of our state to punish us for it.
I bet that new revenue stream of GPS tracking for cars gets forced on us pretty soon.
Posted by Jon | April 17, 2007 7:40 AM
In Oregon the DMV doubled the Prius registration fee because the cars did not use enough gas....
Not according to their website:
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/fees/vehicle.shtml
Scroll down to "passenger vehicles". The fee is the same.
Posted by Jon | April 17, 2007 7:49 AM
It was higher for a while; now it's not. But the wacko proposal for a GPS-based mileage tax would bring the concept back in a slightly different form -- the less fuel used, the higher the tax relative to fuel use, and let out-of-state users of our roads off the hook altogether.
Posted by Allan L. | April 17, 2007 8:55 AM
The thing that worries me is you know "congestion" fees wont be long off. They will know where your car is 24/7, and will charge you accordingly. On I-5 during rush hour? Extra fees. In downtown in the middle of the day? Extra fees. And what about cars with no computers? There are still a lot of older cars driving around.
How will they track those? And the best question...who's gonna pay for it?
Posted by Jon | April 17, 2007 10:23 AM