OJ, not to abet the Suburban driver's dubiously sane mania against cheap individual transportation, but I keep wondering when you're going to start extolling the virtues of jacking the taxes on the cars themselves through the roof. Take Denmark, for example: Between VAT and registration fees, you can somewhere between quadruple and quintuple the sticker price of the car, and of course the gas and insurance aren't exactly cheap either. Results: (1) Bicycles everywhere in Copenhagen, (2) Lots of Danes pay $50K-$60K for stripped-down econoboxes, and (3) Lots of Danes move abroad for a year or two when they want to buy a new car and don't want a Yugo. (Spain and Portugal seem to be particularly popular places in that regard.)

NH has an excise tax on cars when you register every year. It's pretty expensive. On the other hand, we have no sales or income tax. Tax that which you don't want.