>>>>> Several years ago I waged a campaign for pay by day auto
>>>>> insurance. I contacted insurance companies, the American
>>>>> Federation of Cyclists, the Energy Efficient Economy Inst., etc.
>
>>>>> The argument was it would clear vehicles from the streets.
>>>>> Americans like a car parked out in the driveway but they don't
>>>>> like 24/7 the overhead.
>
>>>>> A year or so later _Harpers_ ran a piece on pay by mile.
>>>>> Progress happens.
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>>>> It's just another artificial
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>>> Electroninc communication is artificial too.
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>>>> constraint
>
>>> If you don't want pay by mile just keep your conventional policy.
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>>> It's an _option_.
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>>>> on people's ability to form a
>>>> viable community and society.
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>>> Pay by mile encourages public transportation and cycling which in
>>> turn encourages community. ?My experiences in the past 13 hours
>>> confirm that.
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>>>> Your's is a anti-democratic
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>>> Pay by mile doesn't interfer with universal suffrage.
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>>>> and anti-liberty mindset.
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>>> What about freedom from insurance premiums?
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>> No clue why anyone would object to this.
>
> That poster is nuts. Even oil industry shills will keep their mouths
> shut on the matter.
>
> Geico already has a ~ 20%% discount if you drive less than 3,000 miles/
> year.
>
> Texas has some $100/year plan for show cars that are driven less than
> some distance a year.
>
> Maybe he confused health insurance for high risk patients with driving
> a lot.
>
> The difference is a lot (most?) of health care costs doesn't hinge on
> personal behaviour.
>
>> More driving means more risk,
>> less driving less.
>
> The advantage of pay by day is you'ld pay more to drive when it was
> dangerous, 4th of July and New Year's, and less when it was safe,
> morning rush hour traffic.
> Also there is no way to cheat pay by day.
Pig ignorant lie.
> You phone in when you need the vehicle and then drive. If you don't phone
> in and you are stopped, you have no insurance and your car is impounded.
Pity about the cost of all that checking.
Just another utterly mindless hare brained scheme.
> With pay by mile it's either high tech
Completely trivial with GPS, stupid.
> or they'll roll back the odometer.
> Moreover many miles on the freeway might be safer than a few miles in town.
No might be about it.
>> No-brainer for those of us who believe in the efficacy of markets.
The wankers...
