{"id":378,"date":"2010-05-05T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-05-05T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T23:16:57","slug":"campaign-getting-in-gear-in-oregon-to-get-studded-tire-ban-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/campaign-getting-in-gear-in-oregon-to-get-studded-tire-ban-passed.html","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Getting In Gear In Oregon To Get Studded-Tire Ban Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

It seems that the\u00a0use of studded tires has been a perennial\u00a0hot topic in Oregon.\u00a0 And the debate has been renewed.<\/p>\r\n

The consumer columnist for The Oregonian,\u00a0Joseph Rose, \u00a0recently wrote\u00a0about how “a citizen activist”\u00a0in the state this summer plans to\u00a0rev up a campaign to get a studded-tire ban on the 2012 ballot\u00a0in Oregon. http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/commuting\/2010\/04\/anti-studded_tires_campaign_la.html<\/a><\/a><\/p>\r\n

And this initiative already has a website,\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.banstuddedtires.com\/<\/a>\u00a0, up for its campaign.<\/p>\r\n

The activist pushing for the anti-stud ban is Jeff\u00a0 Bernards,\u00a0who\u00a0is\u00a0 like Don Quixote in his quest to “save Oregon’s roads and budgets from senseless waste.”\u00a0But it’s apparently been a tough sell.\u00a0The state Legislature has been rejecting passing such a ban since\u00a01974.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The anti-tire stud group and Rose maintain that the studs do $40 million in damage annually\u00a0to the state’s roads,\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Another Oregon columnist, Patrick\u00a0Emerson of The Oregon Business Report, seemed amused about the brouhaha.\u00a0http:\/\/oregonbusinessreport.com\/2010\/05\/debated-renewed-over-studded-tire-ban-tax\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Both Wisconsin and Minnesota ban studded tires, according to Emerson, who spent many years living in Wisconsin.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In the case of Oregon, he cited one economist’s suggestion, which is to add a tax to studded tires to pay to repair the damage they do to roads.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0But we liked the comment that one man, who is against the stud-ban,\u00a0\u00a0put on Emerson’s blog.<\/p>\r\n

“What’s the cost of driving up\u00a099E along the river from Oregon City to Canby, spinning out on the ice and getting killed?” Matthew asked.<\/p>\r\n

We’re with him.<\/p>\r\n

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It seems that the\u00a0use of studded tires has been a perennial\u00a0hot topic in Oregon.\u00a0 And the debate has been renewed. The consumer columnist for The Oregonian,\u00a0Joseph Rose, \u00a0recently wrote\u00a0about how “a citizen activist”\u00a0in the state this summer plans to\u00a0rev up a campaign to get a studded-tire ban on the 2012 ballot\u00a0in Oregon. http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/commuting\/2010\/04\/anti-studded_tires_campaign_la.html And this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,140,138],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oregon-studded-tire-campaign","tag-studded-tire-debate","tag-studded-tire-ban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t