Re: clueless journalists, dumb politicians...
why should Oahu have to compete with Maui...I mean we're all one state right? The islands should enhance each other as it did back in the 70's and before.
As far as cars are concerned I remember back a few decades ago Japan had a law that pretty much said that if you own a car you have to have private parking for it as well. There was no overnight street parking allowed.
Also cars that were older than 10-years had to pay a certain tax. With this tax it pretty much disqualified a greater portion of pollution producing and deadbeat cars from being driven by having them recycled.
That brings up an interesting suggestion: If you had an old car and you wanted to replace it with a newer one. There should be a tax break if you recycle your car at a local auto dismantler instead of reselling it to someone else to drive. This way another car is removed from the roads when you buy another.
Right now a lot of used cars that don't sell on Oahu end up here on the Big Island for sale at the used car lots. There's a ton of older 80's cars bearing Fxx-xxx series Oahu license plates driving around here. Oahu simply barged it's excess to the Big Island. These cars have maybe a couple years of service before needing to be trashed. The landfills in Hilo is getting pretty mountainous with wrecked cars bearing Oahu license plates.
why should Oahu have to compete with Maui...I mean we're all one state right? The islands should enhance each other as it did back in the 70's and before.
As far as cars are concerned I remember back a few decades ago Japan had a law that pretty much said that if you own a car you have to have private parking for it as well. There was no overnight street parking allowed.
Also cars that were older than 10-years had to pay a certain tax. With this tax it pretty much disqualified a greater portion of pollution producing and deadbeat cars from being driven by having them recycled.
That brings up an interesting suggestion: If you had an old car and you wanted to replace it with a newer one. There should be a tax break if you recycle your car at a local auto dismantler instead of reselling it to someone else to drive. This way another car is removed from the roads when you buy another.
Right now a lot of used cars that don't sell on Oahu end up here on the Big Island for sale at the used car lots. There's a ton of older 80's cars bearing Fxx-xxx series Oahu license plates driving around here. Oahu simply barged it's excess to the Big Island. These cars have maybe a couple years of service before needing to be trashed. The landfills in Hilo is getting pretty mountainous with wrecked cars bearing Oahu license plates.
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