The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds are short.
The report discussed the proposal in great detail, including the development of technology that would allow total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to be tracked, reported and taxed, as well as the pros and cons of mandating the installation of this technology in all vehicles.
And will it stop with the car driver? Me thinks not. Given how money encourages more gouging, I foresee anyone (commercial or private) driving getting pinched in the long run. It’s how the beast works. Yes, lots of bathroom humor.
It’s Friday. I give you Idiocracy. You can find it anywhere.
President Obama, his daughters, his wife and his mother-in-law had just debarked from five days of parties, toasts and sightseeing across South America.
Akaiwa found his wife on Saturday and a visitor remarked the reunion must have been an emotional one.
“She is very important for me,” Akaiwa said, advising an interpreter he wasn’t interested in answering more questions on the matter.
After his found his wife, it was back into the water to search for his mom.
He found her on Tuesday in her home. This isn’t a big city and that was the first place he thought to look, naturally, but the debris and flooded streets make any movement taxing.
“She was very much panicking,” Akaiwa said. “There were rushing waters all around still and she was trapped in the upper part of her house.”
Quite uplifting to know that this man will be out there still looking.
The darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight of the heroes who stayed behind.
These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown.
The Fukushima Fifty – an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers – have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11.
After the earthquake.
Fixed.
Another hero rescues porpoise.
A baby porpoise was rescued after surviving two weeks in a flooded paddy field.
The porpoise was dumped there by the 33ft tsunami that has devastated the east coast of Japan on March 11.
Pet-shop owner Ryo Taira, who has been rescuing animals abandoned after the catastrophe, said: ‘A man passing by said he had found the dolphin in the rice paddy and that we had to do something to save it.’
Taira, 32, found the porpoise struggling in the shallow seawater and after failing to net it, waded in to the fieldto cradle the 4ft creature to safety.
‘It was pretty weak by then, which was probably the only reason we could catch it,’ he said.
He wrapped it in wet towels and drove it back to the sea, where he set it free. He said it appeared to perk up at the sight of the Pacific, he said.
‘I don’t know if it will live, but it’s certainly a lot better than dying in a rice paddy,’ Taira told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
