The Denver Post
September 10, 2008, Jeffrey Leib

An environmental coalition is proposing that Colorado motorists pay a "greenhouse-gas emission fee" on their vehicles to raise at least $500 million a year for fixing roads and bridges, and for more transit. A plan presented Tuesday to Gov. Bill Ritter's special panel on transportation finance said such a fee could be calculated by multiplying the number of miles a vehicle is driven each year by the carbon dioxide emissions per mile it produces times a dollar-per-ton of emissions set by legislation. In addition to providing money for transit and road repair, such a fee would create incentives to reduce the miles motorists drive, encourage the use of fuel-efficient vehicles and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, said Boulder County transportation director George Gerstle, who presented the plan. ...

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