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I tried to commit suicide in 2006 and I ended up being hospitalized 4 times, I tried different anti depressents, but nothing worked. I went into different programs, and gave it my full effort, not to feel the way that I did. I finely ended up getting into a program that helped me emencly called DBT. I lost more than a year of my life. I am now better and living my life. In response to "Hubertq" I wasn't any of those thing, "alone, disabled, poor, divorces, or ever used drugs!." I was adopted and at a private school. It happens to more people than what this person mentions. You have to keep going, and seek support, and if the support isn't working, keep trying to find something until you find something that works. I know how hard it is, and the wanting to give up, but keep going.

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On the radio, there was a metion about electric cars. If all this has to do with people going to the gas pump and it will spit out where you were driving accordingly, then how are you going to tax people that have electric cars, because they don't have to go to the gas pump?

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According to the program they say that you wont be tracked, but it can figure out if you are in oregon, washington, any other state. This makes it so that they could actually track you if they wanted to!!

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I live in eastern oregon and there is no way of not driving long distance. The only way that we can combate the expense is by fuel efficient cars. I feel that if you had us paying per mile, all that would happen is that you would end up hurting the environment because at that point it wouldn't matter economically to spend a lot of money and get a fuel efficient car. I also have a problem with the fact that there is a traking system. I know right now that they say it wont keep a record of the car's location, but I see a time in the future that it might be decided to start traking cars. It would end up giving the government a tool where there could be abuse, like wire tapping that wasn't supposed to happen but did.

I feel that if the problem is that there just needs to be more revenue, then why not just raise the gas tax. It is in place right now, works, and I think if you started to change the system it would probably cost into the billions of dollers to create the system for everyone. It would be cheaper to just stay, and more environmentaly friendly to stay with a tax on our gasoline.

I liked what someone else said about out of state cars and long haul truckers, how are we going to tax them? They use the same road way as the rest of us. They should get aplied to the same tax. Right now they are taxed the same as everyone in this state, because they have to buy gasoline.

I hope that as a state, Oregon does not change to per-mile tax, but stayes with the gas tax system. Thus helping the environment, because more people will buy fuel efficient cars.

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