I've been cycling a LOT lately, my car sits in the driveway most days.
As I'm getting ready for work, I put on a youtube video to listen to in the background.
I spotted this comment on a video talking about housing and bikes: "One of the most frustrating arguments against bike infrastructure: Who's going to pay for it? Cause roads for cars are free,"
But they're not! After I've taken to cycling and learning more and more about things going on behind the scenes(and hearing Jonathan talk about how he needs to try the bike in an early episode as I'm re-listening) I wanted to share my thoughts with others who might find some insight/value from it.
"You claim that but then we pay a tax on every gallon of gasoline we buy(I think maryland is upping it to 40+ cents for each gallon this or next year) AND there's toll roads (I don't use it often, but back in April I $50 to EZ pass to use toll roads to be able to see my childhood bestie who lives about 150 miles away). Whereas bikes don't get taxed on gasoline because they simply don't use it. We can get into a discussion on fueling up with foods produced and shipped with trucks or taxes on electricity to power e-bikes but it's so negligible. The more I ride my bike, the more I save on taxes."
I don't really know where I was going with this, but the podcast talks a lot about minimizing the taxes we pay, and it's an EASY line-item to minimize if you live in cycling distance to work. Thought it might be fun to share.
And bike photo tax for ya'll (bought it used for a respectable price given the brand):
