How many miles a year do you drive?

[5.4]

How many miles a year do you drive? Some plans in Ontario are to put a gps in everyone's car and toll people on how much you drive (they will never get their way, I hope), less then 1.5 miles from home and get a higher toll.

Should poeple be tolled on how much they drive per year? That's the best way to reduce emissions and save oil really, or no?

ahh dammit, it didn't let me put a poll in. If a mod could edit a pole in with increments of 10/20k miles per year that would be great!!

[Ecky]

I drive 15,000 miles per year, +/- 3,000.

[Ladogaboy]

Right now, I'm driving about 10,000 miles a year, but that can easily go up based on discretionary driving.

I'm very much in favor of the United States switching to a toll-based system, but that has more to do with our government's inability to manage its money (one revenue source usually ends up paying for another, wholly-unrelated program).

[cfg83]

5.4 -

Checking my fuel log ...

2008-12-30 - 169093 odometer reading
2009-12-31 - 188647 = 19554 miles
2010-12-30 - 205244 = 16597 miles
2011-12-27 - 221731 = 16487 miles

CarloSW2

[puddleglum]

We drove 8229km (5113mi.) last year. Over half of that was highway and occurred in less than 20days. The rest of the year is all short trips. Whether it's short trips or long, people still need to get where they are going and walking or biking is just not always an option. If you don't drive very far, you still burn less fuel and create less pollution, I think, even if your mileage sucks.
Penalizing people for not driving far enough? Sounds like a cash grab idea, not an environmental one. If they want to tax people for their driving, tax the people needlessly idling their vehicles. I hope they don't go through with it.

[oil pan 4]

For the last 9 years I was averaging about 5,000 miles per year. Now I live 16 miles from work it might be more these coming years.

[jakobnev]

50,000 miles/y

(Yes i drive for a living)

[jsatter]

Perfect timing to answer this question since I got my car a year ago. I drove 20,000 miles. That's a ton, mostly due to my commute.

There's been talk of doing similar in the US , taxing people for the miles driven due rather than pay gas taxes per gallon of gas purchased due to more fuel efficient vehicles on the road that use less gas.

[GRU]

I drive 3000 miles / year

The only problem is, how are you going to charge someone for driving x amount of miles in a civic and is the person with a Navigator going to get charged the same for the same miles? Best way is to raise gas prices through the roof, then people will drive less and if they have to drive far to work and back then they will chose a fuel efficient car or carpool/bus

[user removed]

Best way is to raise the gas tax, which penalises those who drive inefficiently. A 3 ton SUV does considerably more damage to roads compared to a 2200 pound compact car.

If you drive for a living you can deduct approximately 50 cents a mile for business related travel (not sure of the exact amount this year).

Of course if the gas tax was increased, the idiots would not spend it on road maintenance and improvements, but on other non road expenses.

Per mile tax does not encourage drivers to switch to more efficient vehicles, per gallon does, while both would encourage less non essential driving.

regards
Mech