Sentences with phrase «latest vehicle mile travel»

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), the latest vehicle mile travel data shows that motorcyclists are 27 times as likely to be killed in an accident as car occupants, and 6 times as likely to be injured.

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Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

«Sen. Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is expected to make a recommendation later this year on whether the federal government should drop the gas tax and implement the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax... By requiring cars to be equipped with odometer spyware that will report to authorities how many miles are driven, government is looking to toss out the old gas tax for a new miles - driven fee... «The Left is always pushing for more and more regulations, and more and more taxes.

Other than a brief blip in the late 1970s, the number of vehicle miles traveled rose more than 3 percent a year starting in the mid-1970s, gaining as much as 3.6 percent during the early 1990s, according to government figures.