LexRides

[Octopod]

I'll break the silence brokebike

Check this out: Let's do it in LEX!

Community Voluntary Gas Tax Used to Fund Bicycle Projects:
A small group of citizens in the town of Goshen Indiana are taxing themselves an extra $0.50 per gallon of gasoline and giving the money to groups working to break the nation's oil addiction. Since April the Gas Tax Club of Goshen has already donated more than $400 to a local bicycle club that is providing bicycle-powered curbside recycling, second hand bike recycling, and advocating improved bike paths in the community. The voluntary tax organizers see the initiative as a way to be more mindful of how much gas we do use and take that negative use of our oil addiction and put it into something that has a positive benefit.(Tribtown.com, May 31, 2008, http://www.tribtown.com/news/gas_8216___article.html/tax_oil.html)
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[roller]

Wow, this was from last summer when gas prices were nearly double the cost today. It's a great idea and maybe more tangle than a carbon offset if more people in turn ride bikes.

But I wonder how it would fly here. I guess they collected it in the club instead of saying, "Sir, I just bought 10 gallons of gas, here's $5 to give to the liberal bike groups trying to destroy everything that's american."

[brokebike]

[roller]

i know...if the hl published even a guest editorial on this, their web server would crash from evil comments.

[ihearthuckabees]

I really like this idea. I would be participate as long as I was happy with how the funds generated were being utilized.