Just heard on the news that a bill is in the Idaho Senate to add 1.5 cents per gallon of av gas to help maintain the backcountry strips. It isn't much but with fuel being expensive as it is...

Jon

It think it's a fairly small part of the program personally as long as that is what the money really goes to. I'd rather have the strips maintained and useable myself. What we have is quite special here in ID. and nothing in life is for free.
Personally for me the numbers look like this;
14ish gallons an hour, let's say 100 hours a year (1400 gallons)
14x1.5=$.21/hrx100=let's just say like $25.00/year. Hell for most guys it won't equate to half that and if it does then you deserve to pay because you are probably getting out and using the strips.
I'm not thinking about it. With three kids $25 is a trip to McDonalds. Or one lift ticket for a day for my 15 year old to ski at Soldier. Or what I blow times ten every freakin' time I walk into Sportsmans in preparation to fly into those strips.
I say take it and maintain, I'd like a windsock at Salmon Bar.
It's like analyzing the weight of Bushwheels over little tires, you got better shit to do once you just buy them.

I agree that it is a small price to pay and I am willing to pay it as long as it goes where they say it will. I just wish there was a different place to get the funding from...being a college student it is hard enough to justify buying fuel to go dink around. 1.5 cents won't be a big deal now but it just seems to me that adding a tax to fuel is how funding issues are solved in aviation.

Jon

I don't agree with a fuel tax nationally necessarily for funding. I just think that if it is on a state level and the state happens to be the only in the lower 48 with a well maintained network of almost 60 or so strips that equates into nothing short of a pilots playground, the fuel bought in this state by the users is OK.
College student hah, gonna have to cut back on keggers and girls gone wild videos!

Just heard on the news that a bill is in the Idaho Senate to add 1.5 cents per gallon of av gas to help maintain the backcountry strips.

Whee, fear not, the tax is not as you have stated. It's actually a $1.50 per gallon tax increase, and the money is being used to lower the stall dividers in back country airstrip toilets.

Hammer, yer killin' me!

Hammer wrote: the money is being used to lower the stall dividers in back country airstrip toilets.

What if we have a wide stance

Tim

i hate taxes as much as anyone. this is one i will pay with a smile on my face. i hope the money go's to the strips.
rob