Category Archives: Motorists

Minnesota prepares for shutdown

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Time is running out for Minnesota’s parks, highway rest stops and public universities, not to mention 36,000 state employees. If Gov. Mark Dayton and lawmakers don’t agree on a budget by June 30, the state government is expected to shut down. The state moved one step closer [...]

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Laws covering texting, tanning beds, trans fat take effect in 2010

By doris | Published: January 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Legislatures in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico met in 2009, leading to the enactment of 40,697 laws, many of which take effect January 1. The new laws cover a variety of areas, from texting and tanning beds to human trafficking [...]

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Dealers await reimbursements for clunkers

By doris | Published: September 3, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com But Londoff isn’t complaining. The bigger picture, he said Tuesday, is that Johnny Londoff Chevrolet and other dealerships across the country sold almost 700,000 cars and trucks in a bad economy, thanks to the economic stimulus initiative. “People sold through 90 or 120 days of inventory in 40 days,” Londoff said. [...]

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Senators push nationwide ban on texting while driving

By doris | Published: July 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-New York; Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey; Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana; and Kay Hagan, D-North Carolina, unveiled the ALERT Act, which would ban truck and car drivers and operators of mass transit from texting while driving. The proposed legislation would prohibit any driver from sending text or e-mail messages while [...]

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Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution

By doris | Published: June 28, 2009

Full Story At News.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead. It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global [...]

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Automakers, Obama announce mileage, pollution plan

By doris | Published: May 19, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama wants drivers to go farther on a gallon of gas and cause less damage to the environment — and be willing to pick up the tab. Obama on Tuesday planned to announce the first-ever national emissions limits for cars and trucks, as well as require a [...]

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Panel: Raise gas tax, charge drivers by the mile

By doris | Published: February 27, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Raise federal gasoline taxes to help pay for road projects? Not during a recession, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has said. Then how about moving toward a system that finances highway construction by charging motorists by the mile? When LaHood suggested last week that be considered among other potential financing [...]

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Obama nixes plan to tax motorists on mileage

By doris | Published: February 21, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary’s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy. “It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs [...]

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