Good morning fellow riders! It was hazy skies and 60 degrees here in the Northwest when I hit the road at 6:45am for the H.O.G Million Mile Monday.
Today every single H.O.G. member worldwide can take part in this event without having to cross a single state or national border. Sounds easy. And they even made it simple to log the miles and obtain your certificate!
Bikers all over the country riding a million miles made me think how environmentalists are constantly evangelizing for higher gas taxes as the cure-all to the global warming theory. Consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes and that’s not including taxes paid directly to the government by the oil companies and passed onto consumers.
Let’s break it down…if I did this correct, one million miles at 45MPG means we’ll burn about 22,222 gallons of gas today. At $4.24/gallon we’ll burn through $94,221 in gas and put nearly $10,000 into the government coffers with gas taxes!
I think Harley/H.O.G got this one right by starting the million miles off on a typical work day/week for most of us and unlikely they’ll have an environmental “hit” which could have been the case if they advocated everyone drive a million miles on a Saturday. I for one can appreciate that.
Hopefully you rode today and were able to take a longer route, or maybe spend lunch hour riding with coworkers.
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