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Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Mainers invited to become track-your-car guinea pigs
The Portland Press Herald ^ | 15 July 2009 | Beth Quimby

Posted on Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:16:47 AM by BGHater

It’s all in the name of research on finding a better way to tax motorists, and the pay is $895.

Wanted: 250 Maine drivers willing to let a stranger put a black box under their dashboard.

The reward: $895 and the opportunity to speak their minds about the highway tax experiment to a researcher.

University of Iowa researchers are seeking 250 motorists in Cumberland, York and Sagadahoc counties willing to have a computer tracking system installed in their cars for 10 months. The system could someday be used to tax drivers according to the number of miles they drive, rather than the amount of gasoline they consume.

Portland is one of six cities picked for the research, which is designed to determine whether a mileage tax would work better than the gas tax to support the country’s highway system.

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