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Should the U.S. Implement a New 'Value-Added Carbon Tax' to Replenish the Federal Highway Trust Fund?
The Federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) provides revenue to enable States' to maintain and upgrade many U.S.-wide highway and road systems. The primary source of HTF revenues come from Federal excise taxes on petroleum gasoline and diesel on-road motor fuels. Due to a combination of not increasing this Federal excise tax since 1993, increasing needs for highway/road infrastructure expenditures and construction/maintenance cost inflation, growing HTF deficits could substantially curtail critically needed future infrastructure projects. Could implementing a new Federal 'value-added carbon tax' (VACT) on petroleum motor fuels be the ideal solution to providing future needed HTF revenues? Such a policy could also help benefit the environment. And, what other feasible options should Congress seriously consider to better balance future HTF investments with available revenues?
Federal Highway Trust Fund History – The HTF was created in 1956 to directly fund construction of U.S. interstate highway systems and secondary roads. Funding revenues were supposed to be primarily generated by establishing adequate Federal excise taxes on petroleum gasoline and diesel motor fuels. Historically, the HTF excise tax revenues covered roughly 90% of Congress approved highway and roads projects. The balance of funding came from the general Federal tax revenues, which must be routinely approved by Congress. Re. 'Other Receipts' in the recent DOT HTF financial data balances. Over the years the HTF has been used for additional transportation projects including safety and expanded renewable fuels. While most of the different programs supported by the HTF have benefited the Public overall, available Federal excise taxes have increasingly become inadequate to meet infrastructure funding commitments approved by Congress.
The HTF motor fuels excise tax increased from 3 cents per gallon (cpg) in 1956 up to 18.4 cpg for gasoline and 24.4 cpg for diesel today. These excise taxes have not changed since 1993. Over the years individual States have also added excise taxes to motor fuels. Unlike the Federal motor fuels taxes that have remained constant for 20 years, many States have significantly increased their levels of excise taxes over the years. Today total State + Federal gasoline excise taxes vary from 32.9 cpg (NJ) up to 68.9 cpg (NY); with a U.S. average of 49.3 cpg. Average U.S. total diesel excise tax is 54.5 cpg. Total State + Federal excise taxes collected today (2013 basis) are between $80-90 Billion annually. Despite these very large annual excise taxes, the CBO estimates up to $18 Billion of addition revenue will be needed to maintain HTF solvency through 2015. The imbalance of fully funding the HTF is due to Congress over committing available revenues. Many States' also run roads maintenance deficits by increasingly dedicated their individual State excise taxes to other local political, non-road maintenance/construction priorities.
Over the years the majority States have received significantly greater funds from the HTF than collected from instate Federal motor fuels excise taxes. States that receive less HTF funding than their instate contributions are known as "donor" States, and States that receive more than their contributions are known as "donee" States.
Factors that Negatively Affect Federal Highway Trust Fund Revenues – Current-past Congresses and Presidents have avoided addressing HTF funding shortages other than approving relatively short-term, general tax fund transfers. Is it time for the Federal Government to more seriously consider longer term HTF deficit solutions such as possibly increasing Federal motor fuels taxes and possibly implementing other revenue-expense balancing solutions? Factors that continue to deplete available HTF revenues include:
Inflation – Federal excise taxes are fixed at constant 'cents per gallon' (cpg) of motor fuels purchased. While the cost of highway construction and maintenance has inflated continuously over the years, total excise tax revenues are only proportional to total on-road motor fuels consumption volumes.
Reduced Fuel Consumption – Motor fuels consumption has been constrained by increasing CAFE standards. Annual CAFE standards' compliance is achieved by increased ICE vehicle fuel efficiency, and the development of alternative fueled vehicles including HEV's and EV's. Successful CAFE regulations have and will reduce past-future petroleum consumption volumes and available excise tax revenues. Since the 2007-09 recession increased motor vehicle efficiencies and reduced 'vehicle miles traveled' (VMT) have reduced total petroleum motor fuels consumption and associated excise taxes by over 10%.
Deteriorating Road Infrastructures – The combination of increased number of vehicles and VMT, and deferring road maintenance over the years (inadequate State and HTF investment) have led to growing infrastructure deterioration. Deferred infrastructure maintenance or lack of adequate preventative maintenance ultimately leads to substantially higher future infrastructure repair costs.
Congress HTF and States Projects Approvals – Despite HTF revenue shortages Congress continues to approve total projects that require more revenues than generated by past and current Federal excise taxes. Many States have also increasingly either diverted their excise tax revenues to non-road priorities and/or borrowed money (issued bonds) for road infrastructure projects that contribute to increasing in-state transportation related future expenses.
Options to Increase Highway Trust Fund Revenues – A number of feasible actions to increasing HTF excise taxes or reducing expenditures have been identified and debated in recent years as following:
Increased Federal Excise Taxes and/or Reduced HTF Expenditures – Although raising any taxes can be politically risky, it's time to seriously reconsider increased excise taxes or accept reducing the level Congress approved HTF expenditures.
Change the Federal Excise Tax Structure – Since 1993 average gasoline and diesel prices increased over $2.00 per gallon while Federal excise taxes per gallon remained constant. Federal excise taxes could be made proportional to motor fuels retail costs similar to 'sales taxes' (% per gallon) or could be continuously 'inflation adjusted'.
Shift More Maintenance Responsibilities to the States – Rather than just redistributing greater revenues to individual 'donee' States from a revenue short HTF, Congress could consider shifting increased highways/roads maintenance responsibilities back to individual States.
Increase Toll Roads and Private Ownership of Major Highways – The need for HTF revenues can be decreased significantly by creating more inter-/intra-state 'toll roads'. Having the ability to contract out the operation and maintenance to Private Parties shifts the responsibility for highways and associated infrastructure maintenance costs from State and Federal Governments to the Private sector.
New VMT Tax – An option to just increasing Federal motor fuels excise taxes is to create a new roads usage tax based on the number of VMT by each vehicle owner. Each vehicle owner could be charged a road usage fee added to their annual vehicle registration fees based on actual total VMT. This vehicle road usage tax strategy can also address the lost excise tax revenues from higher fuel efficiency or alternative fuel vehicles including HEV's and EV's.
New 'Value Added Carbon Tax' (VACT) – Many individuals and organizations have increasingly advocated carbon taxes as a means to encourage the transition from petroleum fuels to lower carbon alternative or renewable fuels. Implementing a $10 per metric ton (MT) VACT would effectively increase current petroleum gasoline and diesel motor fuels cost-taxes by only 8 and 10 cents (US) per gallon respectively. This could increase current HTF revenues by over $10 Billion per year; nearly equivalent to projected HTF annual deficits.
Restoring the Federal Highway Trust Fund Solvency – The HTF balance sheet is rapidly declining and changes are immediately required to avoid revenue-expenditure deficits that can negatively impact infrastructure projects needed to maintain U.S.-States' highways/roads systems. Without adequate transportation infrastructure investment future Public safety, and the efficient and reliable flow of inter-/intra-State Commerce could be negatively impacted. These Public and Economic risks can be mitigated by properly implementing one or more of the legislative options previously covered; and possibly other alternative actions.
For a number of ideological or political reasons neither the current Administration nor either Party within Congress appears to be supportive of directly increasing HTF excise taxes to cover current and projected deficits. Instead, the Administration and Congress continue to propose various Federal general tax revenue funding schemes not directly related to the Transportation Sector. In addition, many of the proposed Federal general tax fund revenue generating schemes appear to just add to current and risk future-added Federal deficit spending. Such actions could merely shift the increased debt burden to future Generations.
To avoid increasing Federal deficits, both current or future, either the amount of HTF spending needs to be reduced to the level of available transportation tax revenues or the level of HTF revenues needs to be increased. Reducing highways/roads infrastructure projects, of course is strongly opposed by most (State and Federal) Interests due to the need to delay or cancel numerous projects; resulting in lost jobs, further maintenance delays, and other negative economic/potential safety impacts. Even though many States could readily shift their current motor fuels taxes more fully in support of needed highway/road projects, their Governors strongly prefer shifting or keeping the tax burdens at the Federal level.
Another option not currently being considered by the current Administration or Congress is implementing a new petroleum motor fuels 'value added carbon tax' (VACT). Value added or consumption taxes are fairly common in numerous countries such as within the EU. By implementing a new VACT, the U.S. would take advantage of the synergy between maintaining and improving highways/roads infrastructures and addressing the apparent need to reduce U.S. carbon emissions.
Those who support the need to reduce U.S. carbon emissions should also be strongly in support of a new VACT policy. As previously covered, gasoline and diesel VACT's of 8 and 10 cpg (respectively) should provide sufficient funds for at least the next several years. Future years' roads maintenance inflation and continuously increasing vehicle petroleum fuel efficiencies will eventually require future VACT increases or other transportation related tax increases.
A very viable alternative to just increasing excise taxes or VACT revenues would be to consider implementing another value added or consumption tax such as a VMT road-use tax. Implementing VMT taxes should probably be delayed for some period of years in support of developing significantly greater penetration levels of HEV's, EV's and other alternative fuel vehicle technologies (fuel cells, LNG, renewables, etc.). At some point the implementation of a VMT tax will probably be needed and justified, and not a significant barrier to alternative fuel/electric vehicles' development.
One proposed means to collecting VMT data for new taxes is the use of GPS monitoring systems on all individual vehicles. This proposal, however, has been strongly opposed by those who believe such a technology could violate One's privacy. The solution to this concern is pretty simple. All vehicles could be required to have their annual mileage verified at 'smog inspection' station visits commonly found in many States today. Not only would annual VMT be accurately recorded and billed accordingly, but such a policy could also help further mitigate-reduce potentially harmful vehicle tailpipe emissions.
In Conclusion: All Political Decisions Have Benefits and Risks – The HTF revenue shortage is not a new problem and the consequence of raising most any tax is not without political risk. Rather than continuing to just pass short-term solutions for needed HTF revenues or proposing that added revenues will come from highly questionable general or income tax related schemes, perhaps it's time to develop real longer term solutions that are consistent with properly and continuously balancing the Federal HTF. This involves obtaining transportation related funding (taxes) and sustainably balancing expenditures with available revenues. By possibly implementing a new VACT on all on-road petroleum motor fuels, needed HTF revenues can be provided to support all critical highway and road infrastructure projects in the short and long terms. As the combination of reduced fuel consumption (increased fuel efficiency) and maintenance costs (inflation) potentially increases the need for additional fuel consumption related excise or new VACT taxes, other funding options such as a new VMT tax should be strongly considered.
What other Federal HTF revenue generation strategies do you believe will best meet the U.S. needs for supporting future required highway and roads infrastructure projects?
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Thomas Conroy says:
Sorry, I don't see the HTF "shortfall" as a problem.
1. States, both Dem and Repub, have shifted their state gas taxes to other uses. If the states don't think it is important to fund their roads, why does the federal government?
2. No matter how much money we throw at roads (recall the stimulus), our maintenance backlog NEVER goes down. One obvious explanation is that "new" roads/interchanges, etc. receive political attendtion. Fixing bridges and potholes on existing roads does not. It is folly to expect that throwing more money at roads will reduce our "maintenance backlog".
3. Allocating fewer dollars will focus the minds and politicians.
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Thomas, when you travel around the States you might notice a significant deterioration in many roads average conditions compared to about 10 years ago. Yes, this deterioration has developed despite the Stimulus spending (and arguably could be worse without it). Safety issues such as deterioration of bridges should definitely be a priority. How accurate the claimed 10,000's of bridges that need immediate repair is uncertain, but likely not insignificant.
At a recent meeting of most States' Governors, they obviously prefer the Feds pay for needed improvements. Reducing Federal HTF funding to individual States as you recommend will definitely force Governor's to make those difficult political decisions and stop transferring their instate motor fuels excise taxes to non-roads maintenance priorities. This situation could also force ('donee') States with inadequate instate motor fuels excise taxes to immediately begin implementing sufficient tax levels to meet instate highway/road priority maintenance needs. Such an action will also force State Governments to do what most of them appear to rarely do or may have to develop the necessary skills: prioritizing the allocation of revenues to instate projects based on costs:benefits. Political Cronies', of course, may strongly disagree.
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I water paint too. Isn't it fun?!
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It's done very well, and I like the bright colors you used for the dogs!
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This would include the Rio Tinto Eagle Mine in northern Marquette county. County officials have prepared a letter to the state of Michigan aimed at getting all interested parties together for a meeting.
"The letter is asking the state of Michigan, the mining industry, the schools, the county, the townships to come together as a group, make decisions and to help weed through the proposals," said Marquette County Chairwoman Deborah Pellow. "And hopefully we can come up with a consolidated proposal to go back to the Governor on the severance tax."
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©2004-2016 dapride
My way of expressing my belief that gays should be granted equal rights.
DAPride.com: The Website
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Like It!!
I like the message I also like the image in itself. I can't really put my finger on the reason. It makes me think of freedom and being carefree and dancing around barefoot being silly.
This is beautiful, how did you come up with such a good idea for a photo?
Gonna use it as a wallpaper on my pc, thanks
Gonna use it as a wallpaper on my pc, thanks
Some freedom you have there by adding a copyright onto it.
This is absolutely beautiful. Wonderfuly done. Bravo.
love it , this one goes to favs
my favourite wallpaper
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great work
Love it and the message it sends! Thank you!
*question from random person*
Dude, can I use this on a homemade t-shirt? I really want to wear this to school now. I'll put your name underneath it, promise.
Dude, can I use this on a homemade t-shirt? I really want to wear this to school now. I'll put your name underneath it, promise.
I like this alot.
Its just laid back enough to be used enough, but the message is brought across.
Its just laid back enough to be used enough, but the message is brought across.
this is great! i love the photo and the message. it's not as IN YOUR FACE as a lot of other things i've seen and i think that's why i like it so much! <3
i love this, its really good, u hav don a really good job
i support your course, and love your art. (even though the copyright part made me hesitate, as i see no need to limit the message of freedom.)
I am head-over-heels in love with the simplicity of the whole thing.
i love it, great lighting and the typo fits very well
i dont think it's possible for me to love this anymore than i do.
a fave all the way.
a fave all the way.
Amazing... Did anyone actually say they support what it says? How odd...
From the past,
F. Szczepanski
From the past,
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i was actually quite moved by this.. must be the simplicity. or something. rock on.
Excellent composition!! The image and the layout is very nice.
wow you did this really well! the contrast and the layout are great o_O;
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can i just say this peice is just amazeing i really like it esp like the pride wristband!
well done!
addin it as a fave right now!
but also agree with the subcontext of the image being a gay myself all is needed is equality!
well done on this peice once again
well done!
addin it as a fave right now!
but also agree with the subcontext of the image being a gay myself all is needed is equality!
well done on this peice once again
hey ooskar i really loved the pic...and i 100% believe that gays should have equal rights....
speakin from the gay mans point of view :hugs: its awsome, and of course i agree, we need equal rights, we are all human beings, yet some people think otherwise. :shrugs: weird ppl ^_^ well, i loves it, lol
its funny that i see a "rasta" arm band because rastafari is notoriously homophobic
that is not rasta colors. it is a simple mutli-colored wristband. rasta is yellow green and red and as you can see this band was more colors. thank you.
YAY! Very good picture!!
Definitely a favorite. I really love this peace. I think it gets its message across easily, without being too busy. It's really nice. I love it.
Nice peice of work... but I definitely am AGAINST gay freedom!
Gays suck (dick) and everyone knows that!
Gays suck (dick) and everyone knows that!
the quote 'rather be quiet and have people think you're stupid than speak and remove all doubt'
would apply here.
would apply here.
Great piece. Powerful.
Rock on. Love shouldn't have to be dictated by traditional gender lines.
Very powerful.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Excellent use of the font. This is really good!
Hmm, a deviation advocating freedom with a copyright attatched to it? Bit of an oxymoron...
very cool, i like this alot
I love the pic, but it doesn't represent any objections at homosexual racism.. I think what this pic resembles is teenagers freedom and teens expressing themselves trough their clothing and the way they act (peace sign)
just my comment..
just my comment..
cool! nice composition. it will be my desktop wallpaper!
Definetly a :fav: and a wallpaper! I like this very much!
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very very good Indeed
awsome idea
very very good Indeed
awsome idea
this is awsome, simple but has a very strong messege.
it confuses me why we cant? *sigh*
Looks like I've found myself a new wallpaper.
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Co. agreed to pay $650,000 in penalties for safety and health violations at its rail car repair facility in Decatur, Ill., and to create a new corporate position of Vice President of Safety and Health as part of a settlement agreement announced today by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
"We are pleased that ADM has agreed to resolve this matter," said OSHA Administrator Charles N. Jeffress. "The company has already corrected the most dangerous conditions involving serious hazards to its employees who were working in confined spaces without proper equipment and assistance. Even more encouraging is the company's willingness to improve safety and health conditions at all its facilities nationwide."
ADM certified in the settlement that the conditions in the original violations have been corrected and that the Vice President of Safety and Health will be charged with corporate-wide authority and responsibility for monitoring the working conditions throughout the company.
OSHA inspected ADM's rail car facility following an employee complaint that workers were assigned to clean inside rail tank cars without an attendant present. The confined spaces standard requires the presence of attendants for the sole purpose of monitoring and protecting employees working in a confined space. OSHA inspectors also found that employees working inside the rail cars were wearing body harnesses without attached retrieval lines. Those lines would allow for emergency rescue of employees without exposing others to the confined space.
As a result of its investigation, OSHA cited the company on Dec. 2, 1998, for violations of the confined spaces and respiratory protection standards, as well as inadequate storage of flammable and combustible materials. Penalties of $1.6 million were initially proposed.
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Under the settlement agreement, ADM will:
ADM's corporate headquarters and numerous facilities are in Decatur. The company, which processes and merchandises agricultural commodities and products, employs about 14,000 workers nationwide. Approximately 45 workers are employed at the railcar repair facility.
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Nikon D70 Review
A short explanation of RAW to the uninitiated - RAW simply means data direct from the sensor's analog to digital converter (in the case of the D70 12 bits per pixel) which hasn't been processed in any way. The actual RAW file written to the storage card consist of a header which contains the current camera settings (parameters, exposure, white balance selection etc.) followed by this RAW data itself. The D70 writes RAW files in Nikon's .NEF compressed format which produces RAW files around 5.4 MB in size. RAW is considered to be 'the digital negative' as it represents the unaltered image data directly as it was captured and can therefore be processed in many different ways. (Note that the compression used for NEF files is lossless, it's a bit like Zip compression).
Unfortunately there is no industry standard for RAW (lots of reasons for this, not least of which are the variances in sensor design and image processing). This means you can't view RAW files in most photo applications like you can with JPEG (although more and more are adding specialized RAW support).
To convert RAW images you have an expanding range of options, supplied with the D70 is the new Picture Project application (the successor to the long running Nikon Viewer) which has basic RAW conversion with digital exposure compensation and white balance adjustment. To go further with RAW you will need to use either the excellent Nikon Capture (currently at version 4) or a third party RAW conversion application; these include Adobe Photoshop CS (although it doesn't yet officially support the D70) and Phase One's Capture One (again official D70 support coming soon).
PictureProject or Nikon View?
As you will have already read I wasn't impressed with PictureProject 1.0 and chose to use the (free) Nikon View 6.2.1 in the comparisons below, as it turns out they appear to have the same RAW processing engine, the primary difference is that Nikon View Editor allows for adjustment of white balance and digital exposure compensation and it allows for output as TIFF which is important for our comparisons.
JPEG vs. RAW (Nikon View Editor) vs. RAW (Nikon Capture Editor)
Below are two 100% crops taken from images shot within seconds of each other. The first crop is from a Large / Fine JPEG straight from the camera, the second from a RAW converted to TIFF using Nikon View 6.2.1 Editor.
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You can see a clear difference between in camera JPEG and RAW converted by Nikon View Editor. Clearly Nikon View Editor's processing algorithms implement a moiré reduction algorithm which removes the 'maze like' moiré visible at the highest resolutions. The RAW image also appears to extend resolution (or at least a representation of detail) beyond the extinction resolution of the JPEG image. However it is also worth noting that the halo sharpening artifact does appear to be slightly move visible on the Nikon View Editor converted image.
RAW: Nikon View vs. Nikon Capture vs. Adobe Photoshop CS
Disclaimer: Adobe Photoshop CS does not officially support the Nikon D70 although it will open D70 .NEF files. As you can see from the crops below Adobe Photoshop CS can't (at the moment) match Nikon Capture Editor for absolute resolution, nor elimination of artifacts, however I do prefer the crisp appearance of the numbers on the chart and the lack of sharpening halos. Lets hope Adobe will add full support for D70 RAW soon.
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Nikon View Editor sharpening issue?
While reviewing the D2H we spotted a problem with Nikon View Editor and Nikon Capture which rendered Auto sharpening incorrectly. This appears to have been fixed in Nikon Capture 4.1 with D70 RAW images, however it's still there in Nikon View Editor 6.2.1, there is no option to disable sharpening or decrease it below the 'Auto' level Nikon View Editor has chosen. We couldn't select an option which would deliver the same results as Nikon Capture Editor or in-camera JPEG.
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Below you will find two images, the one on the left taken as JPEG straight from the camera, the one on the right a JPEG converted from a RAW file using Nikon Capture Editor 4.1 (default settings). The RAW converted image has a slightly sharper appearance with a little more contrast, color balance is similar.
Settings: Parameters: Normal, ISO 200, Nikkor DX 18-70 mm
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RAW latitude (digital exposure compensation)
We estimate there to be between 0.5 and 1.0 EV of latitude above the normal clipping point of an image captured in RAW mode. This allows for the recovery of some detail in a RAW image which has been accidentally over exposed. As you can see in the image below, applying a -1.0 EV digital exposure compensation in Nikon Capture recovers some detail and the correct color of the brickwork.
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Nikon 'Digital DEE' (digital 'fill flash' / digital dodge and burn)
Nikon Capture 4.1 provides Nikon's "Digital DEE" (Digital Exposure Extender) which can be used to enhance shadow detail and slightly darken highlight areas to produce a more balanced exposure or retrieve dark details. This is very similar to the 'Shadow & Highlights' feature in Adobe Photoshop CS and 'X3 Fill Light' in Sigma Photo Pro 2.0. Applying a Shadow adjustment of 20 to the image really lifts it, restores dark detail and produces an overall more pleasing image.
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Maybe I phrased it poorly.
I am insinuating that the film makers made the death threats and blamed it on Christians.
It's called a false flag. It's actually quite common. Not a difficult strat to understand and if you begin with a depraved mind,attitude and willingness it's probably to be expected.
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Matthew 7:1 "Do not judge so that you will not be judged."
Amazing how that book can be used against the "faithful" is it not ?edit on 29-4-2012 by Noncompatible because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by manna2
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I know!
I feel the threats are as you say, not from a true Christian.
But what if it is all from the makers of the film to draw attention and sympathy for themselves.
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Ban all regional pricing from GOG. Stick with your principles!
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I thought GOG didn't want regional pricing, but it had to make the compromise to get more developers/ publishers on board. I'd probably be missing over 200 games from my account if GOG didn't make this choice.
To give example of the purchasing power difference,
 Right now in India :

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 College tuition per year : ~1000 usd per year
 Starting monthly Salary of a fresh college grad programmer : ~ 300 usd

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 Am from India (which recently got regional pricing on Steam), and i have to say GOG needs regional pricing in India. Indians don't have the purchasing power to pay 60 (or even 20 usd) for a game. Regional pricing is the only way to bring the next billion gamers out of piracy, and into the global digital economy. After steam brought regional pricing, i am afraid that GOG is no longer competitive (obviously) for me (it wasn't much before either but i still made an odd purchase or two if i could to support the DRM-free platform). Of course the exploitation of Australians by the games industry is wrong and frankly seems misguided, but that doesn't negate the argument for regional pricing.

 GOG needs regional pricing with region-based activation-only lock (to prevent arbitrage) but NO regional run-only locks (obviously). This might be bit of a challenge since GOG must remain a DRM-free platform, but ultimately i think the games industry must stop mistrusting and punishing paying customers with their region-lock nonsense.

 So in conclusion India needs regional pricing, but also GOG needs it, to become relevant and stay competitive with Steam.
Gabe Newell would have endorsed your childish behaviour.
 GOG chooses successful business model - regional pricing. How they dare?!
 Nonsense! Only GabeN (Steam) can do this!
I'm astonished that people here still think that regional pricing has to do something with the economical situation of the world. Do you really think that Russia is the poorest country in the world and that it's fair that people from africa have to pay more than people from Australia (who almost ever get a discount on GOG). Or that people from Eastern Europe have to pay more than people from the USA? Not to speak about the fact that the economical situation can be extremely different in different parts of a country (e.g. you can't compare Moscow with rural Russia). So if it is about the economical reality, shouldn't there be different prices within each country as well?
This is the very definition of "first world problems": clueless fools from neo-empires complaining about not being able to exploit their economical and political colonies along with their masters. Different countries have different currency value and, therefore, prices, unless you want to rip them off by inflating prices in your monopoly.

 GOG does not have global monopoly on selling games and wouldn't even if it had been the only game store in the world because of "piracy". And even if it had been, IT ACTUAL PRINCIPLES WOULD GO AGAINST IT.
I'd vote against, if i could. No one would buy The Witcher 3 in Russia for 60 bucks, but it's crazily selling at 1200 rubles - around 19 at current rate. Personally, i'd wait till EE, for them to release all dlcs and fix all (or as many as they can) bugs. when EE is released and i expect it would cost around 30 here and around 55 worldwide, then i'd definitely take it.
Both "sides" here need to look up the word "arbitrage". Once you understand the concept, it either demolishes whatever your argument was, or gives you an opportunity for profit. Or both.

 Or are you so naive that you don't think the request to see other people's wish lists had no ulterior pecuniary motive?
Complaining because GOG.com realized the real economical situation of the world ? Hahaha, greed would be to have stick to those "principles" considering how many countries constantly suffer from the "single price" logic. Which is nothing more than a unequality move of greedy countries.
"Oh, sure, let me just pay 5-10% of my salary for this ONE game... Nope, better use torrents". Stop being a bigot please. Not everyone lives in US, you know?
I don't know if people really are so selfish or just clueless. It's ridiculous to see Americans and Australians crying that they have to pay more for a video game than people in Ukraine.

 Monthly average wage in USD in 2011:
 US: 4.537
 Ukraine: 659
 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage

 The important thing to keep in mind is that this gap in earnings doesn't in any way reflect a difference in the amount of effort put into work. A menial worker in the US and a menial worker in Ukraine perform exactly the same responsibilities, yet one of them is paid a few times more than the other. It's true that the cost of living is also appropriately lower in poorer countries, but it's not low enough for people there to comfortably spend such a large chunk of their budget on one video game.
I can't seem to see the problem with having regional pricing being implemented here on gog. Like what kytoh has said in the previous comment, the cost of one meal in your country may be equivalent to the cost of five meals in another country. I mean, I would be able to find the problem that seem to upset you guys if the people from a different country had to pay a cheaper price for their games on gog compared to the price that the Americans have to pay with the usd were the reason. But guys, the Earth isn't made up of only 2, 3 or 4 countries! There might still be other people out there that have to pay higher for the prices of their games on gog. So complaining for the fact that some people have to pay a cheaper price for their games without considering the other rest, would make the argument less valid. But although it is already stated very clear here that some of you dislike this move from gog because of not sticking with their principles, I greatly disagree with the people that complain to gog for being greedy.
Also note that the extreme differences allows for shady reselling practices (the well known online game code sellers) that confuse gamers and honest customers. "Huh why does this game on this reseller site is half the price of the offical Gog site?" This will not happen (or at least it won't be quite as profitable) when Gog maintains a single price.
Regional pricing will just Gog in the long run. The fact they started out Gog with the promise of single global pricing and now breaking that promise really says a lot about the principles of the guys behind Gog. I guess money really is the root of all evil.

 It saddens me that the most promising digital games retailler is going in the wrong direction.

 Lands are just artificial boundaries that should not reflect on a global infrastructure such as internet. Income differences will always be there. I guess a luxuary good such as a videogame may simply reflect in the fact that these people will either buy less games (or wait a little longer for discount) or plain pirate it.

 Gog, just stick with your principles.
Region LOCKING. Not banning.
I think this is a necessary evil, so that we are able to get "big titles" DRM free. Can't have everything.
Regional Pricing is very much needed but not like steam, I want regional pricing for all 196 countries not a couple of countries like steam. Steam didn't give regional pricing in India (2nd most populated country in the world) where Indian Rupee is par with Rubles and Russians get regional pricing how it is justifiable???
Isn't it's a bit selfish wish? It's same as to wish GOG only serve to US or Europe...
Regional pricing is very important for me and i believe many more Turkish gamers. I purchased games almost equally when Turkey pricing (dollar) was same at steam and gog. But 7 months ago Steam changed this to Turkish lira and regional pricing. After that unfortunately i didnt bought any game from gog even its on discount.
There are really some selfish people commenting here. I guess these people come from wealthy countries or families eh? Lucky you. Don't forget that the cost of 1 meal in your country may be equivalent to the cost of 5 meals in another country.
 Regional pricing is way fairer than standard pricing. Now GOG may still have some unfair pricing for certain region like NZ compare to AUS according to some comments, but this is probably something they can look into and change. But I do not agree with the idea of totally banning regional pricing, because I think it is a good pricing model catering to the affordability of the consumers if done properly.
 Steam did it right, when they introduced my country's currency which made the games more affordable, I bought way more games than I ever did.
I dont get your point, if they are paying less in a country, obviously, they are paying more in another.
@Podestabr: I don't have any issue with them charging LESS for their games in certain countries. But charging MORE, with the excuse of the fraud change 1$=1€, even while repaying the difference in store credit, means to condone a criminal behaviour from the game companies that is all but fair.
I don't agree completely with this, as long as they keep doing this the right way, as in, everybody have the option to pay the 'default' price in dollars, instead of being restricted to the price they are given.

 But people have to understand that not the whole world live under the same conditions. How many copies can you expect if you charge 30% of the minimum wage for a single game? Emerging and poor countries do not have the same amount of money as people of the developed world. If they want to curb piracy and increase market share, that is a move that must be taken, especially because those countries tend to have a low amount of dollars, which leads to governments restricting and heavily taxing purchases on dollar.

 If GOG have any intention of increasing it's user base, it should instead increase the amount of currencies and regional prices it support, otherwise, more and more people will enter the 'gaming' world through steam, and taking back those users later on is a much more difficult task.
I guess a "we don't give a capital F" label would be fitting.
Infested Planet, Kerbal Space Program...go on, GOG, go on. I wonder where the "we will still try to get non-regionally priced games if we can" went. Well, if the majority of the users is cool with it, good for them, i guess. I won't condone this betrayal of their founding principle by buying any of those games.
Titan Souls, Not a Hero, Transistor...i see how much GOG care about 7235 people voting for them going in another direction. Well, i'll keep NOT buying them and being vocal about that. If they keep doing that, i guess more and more companies will insist to have their games regionally priced. If all of the other companies do it, why not have the same treatment? Well, your loss, GOG, because i won't buy any of those games.
I just saw the big price difference for the witcher 3. I always thought they said that they wouldn't be able to ban the regional pricing because the publisher wanted to have it and they rather have more games. Seeing that the Witcher 3+Expansion Pack is priced 30 US-Dollars in Ukraine and 96 US-Dollars in Australia, I really feel kinda ripped of. Especially because in New Zealand you still have to pay the aussi price. I mean seriously, 300% more, no way.
I swear I remember reading that they would discontinue regional pricing even if it meant less games. They probably should have added a "lol jk" to the end of that.
Still kind of sad to see....oh well
No more in progress. At least, they seem to be acknowledging that the community wishlist exists.
yeah not really in progress is it?

 A bit of a shame, really..... http://i.imgur.com/JTvWtAF.gif
@Matruchus
 Poland was a satelite of USSR. Can we have low prices too, please? :)
That "in progress" banner is making a mock of all who voted for this.
 I guess it's too much and too late to ask for a little honesty, eh GOG?
In progress now definitely needs to be removed with the implementation of separate base price for ex soviet countries.
Hey GOG, progress is in the other direction.
@Lifthrasil: Well, as this wish consists of TWO different, but somehow connected parts, I do believe that "in progress" is the only thing they can label it.
 "Stick with your principles" has been fulfilled by adding the FPP (-> Completed); but Ban all regional pricing will probably never be fulfilled! (-> Labeling it as completed would be absurd)
 So yep, "in progress"is very suiting!
Right in this second 10$= 9,1823€
 And guess what price a 10$ game now got in EU? 9,19€!
 And guess how much cashback you get when buying a FairPricePackaged game that costs 10€?
 Jup, 80 cents! Looks rather consistent, doesn´t it?
 :D
Fair regional pricing? Maybe you had that for 3-5 months last year. Now you sell The Witcher EE for 9.99 USD and 9.29 EUR. Without even mentioning the increase in price for the title I'll just address that the EU price goes way beyond VAT. This is a scam.
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There is nothing fair in regional pricing, at least in Europe. For example we in Slovenia have minimum wage ~700€/month, and in Luxemburg they have ~2000€/month. But games are priced the same in both countries!
 It is interesting to watch a small fan oriented company turn into big business.
It is cynical somehow. This is still marked as 'In progress' but the actual 'progress' is in the other direction. Not only are more and more regionally priced games added to the catalogue, now GOG even went one step further and added region locking, which is worse than regional pricing.
Whilst store credit is a small something, rather than the nothing you get from other storefronts I agree with other posters that this shouldn't be a thing in the first place.

 If the money comes out of their pocket for store credit, go one step further and take that regional price hit rather than enforced purchase of extra credit. Don't get me wrong, it's better than others, Steam etc will happily screw you over on the pricing and think nothing of it. But it's blurring the lines and I can understand that external publishers put the pressure on but considering Witcher 3 has regional pricing - from the same people that own GOG? It doesn't match up, if it was truly other publishers forcing the issue then Witcher 3 wouldn't have store credit, it would be the same price for all.
Why hasn't the "in progress" label been removed?
I's really saddening that GOG forgot what they once promises and submits to the will of greedy publishers or whoever came up wit the great idea that some regions have to pay a 30% to 100% extra for inexplicable reasons. Just like the Humble Store, just like every good thing being ruined by greed in the end.
 And yes, you get back some store credit (which is not nearly the extra you're charged first) in the outrageous cases, but you're even cheated on that. For months, the credit advertised for Witcher 3 was not nearly the credit you actually got.
 I would have bought Divinty Original Sin and I would have pre-ordered Witcher 3 if I didn't feel cheated by this nasty price policy. And I hate being cheated.
Taxes are just a lame excuse. Right at the moment that excuse works, because currency conversion by chance is somewhere near the EU Vat rates (but I often still have to pay more than US price + VAT). Just some months ago 1$ = 1€ meant that Europeans (even many who don't even have the Euro as their currency) had to pay 40% more than people from the USA. What does that have to do with VAT? And what about Russia? They are by far not the poorest country in the world and as far as I know they have 18% VAT too. Why do they get such ridiculous low prices? Because it has nothing to do with taxes, but with piracy rates and with greed by publishers and developers.

 And of course the income isn't comparable in every region (but it also isn't the same within a country), but living costs are very different as well. So just looking at the average income doesn't make much sense.
Greed? Why exactly are people calling this greed? That's completely ridiculous.
 GOG even gives credit if you end up paying more than the US price and that actually means they lose money.
 Not every region has comparable income (so one could expect games to be cheaper in South America or Eastern Europe for example).

 And once and for all, try to learn why games in Europe are generally more expensive, there's 2 main reasons and none of them is greed:
 1 - Taxes. Sales taxes for games and other entertainment products is generally higher in Europe compared to the US.
 2 - The taxes ARE INCLUDED in the price. Sales taxes in the EU and US have a major difference: In the EU you pay only the price of the product and the tax is later taken out through the seller. I the US you pay the tax as an extra, so the price in dollars you see is usually not all you will pay, and the final bill will be higher.
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Well, if GOG's unfortunate submission to greed riles you up enough, just do like me: wait for the big sales. Such as the current Autumn sale, up to 90% discount (supposedly, anyhow; I've seen up to 80%, personally). Of course, all games in the sale seem to be at 50% off, until they are featured on the top of the front page, when their discount raises to a varying % for a few / several hours. I've nabbed some oldies, myself, as well as the original M&B that they're ironically offering (ironic considering the second-last comment posted here) and have been getting the "stamps" for the Witcher 2 give-away. I've played it to death and don't intend to replay in the foreseeable future... but it's almost no effort, and in that case I'd certainly rather have and not want, than want and not have. Elsewise, I'm very selective and would rather not even have the free games that were automatically put in my library upon account creation, with one exception: good old Beneath A Steel Sky. Now that's a welcoming gift!

 Anyhow, TL;DR: wait for the sales. You can still nab some classics, plus others, at special prices, still DRM-free, whilst putting the hurt on GOG at the same time by killing their regular sales a bit.

 @Robo4900: the downside -- and its a blatant one -- is their revoking one of their principles as well as their promise never to do so, after having stated that GOG would go under the day it went back on its commitments. They even made a neat sketch satirizing regional pricing, denouncing it as a rip-off and how they'll have nout to do with it.
 They claim to partially submit to this practice so as to make more good games available to us; in other words, they claim they do it for the gamers. The truth is obvious and logical: they do it for the money. They made each of those initial commitments FOR us, now they're breaking one of them FOR us as well? Nothing's changed, except they've grown and would rather keep growing and making more and more sales than to hold onto every commitment. And here's the kicker: those games they've sunk to regional pricing to put on sale at GOG, if you want them, just buy 'em elsewhere! Online, retail, Steam or another digital distributor with no software platform, whatever. It's not gonna be the hard-to-find oldies, which is supposedly what they started this whole business for to begin with, hence the name Good Old Games. They should've aimed at being a tad more restrained and selective, rather than ever more so putting games up that have little or nothing to do with Good or Old. Especially not at the cost of their commitments, which got them where they are. The whole service is still very neat and professional, but it's one commitment now, which will it be next? If you give in to greed once, odds are you'll do it again. May take a long while, but it'll happen. I genuinely wish it won't, but I expect it will.

 Furthermore, regional pricing is indeed a rip-off! It's a digital distribution of software, how are fees and taxes justifiable, beyond the inevitable VAT? There are no shipping costs or tariffs or any such thing applied to a non-physical distribution of non-physical goods. We're being charged more for living in countries of supposedly higher average income! If you think that is fair, then do ponder on the advantage of actually having a higher income when it's made sure you pay more for the same. Oh no, this is blatantly unfair and, truly, a rip-off, if ever there was one.

 GOG folks... you could still undo this. Make it right again.
A fair price is good for everyone. A higher price just to pay the middlemen is not fair. Lets see those middlemen beg publishers instead to get their business.
Since even old games like Mount & Blade are now regionally priced the in progress tag really needs to be removed.


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I guess we'll have to move. The neighborhood is on to us.
This whole house hunt thing is dominating any remnant of spare time I might normally have and it's killing my blogging. Wow, that sounds pretty sad: real life is cramping my virtual style. On a recent visit with our real estate agent, B commented that one of the spare bedrooms would most likely double as my closet. Our real estate agent laughed, but we didn't.
I got these sunglasses from the Georgetown Flea Market last year and I've been neglecting them terribly. They actually fold in half, which is pretty neato.
vintage sunglasses
men's plaid shirt
KMRii bag
H&M snakeskin jeans
vintage winklepickers
vintage bracelets
54 comments:
Your shoes are awesome! xReplyDelete
Loooove those sunglasses!ReplyDelete
And yes, as lame as it sounds...I feel the same way sometimes. "Ugh, I don't have time for the internet!"
We are doing the same thing at the moment with the same effect! Hang in there.ReplyDelete
It is supposed to be fun, let me know when it starts!! :D
I still love those shoes!! :D
those snake skin jeans are so badass! love them!ReplyDelete
U look great! I really like those sunglasses! And that's fun that they fold up! good luck with the house hunting!ReplyDelete
I hear you real life has cramped my virtual style..... love the glasses.....ReplyDelete
Those sunglases are so cool. I love your shirt as wellReplyDelete
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Adorable outfit =^.^=ReplyDelete
yup nice sunglasses, heh and the street is soo greeeen, here is cold and grey;(
Love the glasses and good luck house hunting.ReplyDelete
love that color on you, you look great in plaid!ReplyDelete
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Good luck with the house hunting, E!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see it and hope you can share
photos of your soon to be home sweet home.
Nice outfit, btw!
so cute! love your shirt and glassesReplyDelete
Awesome jeans- and the spare bedroom as closet thing is my dreaaaam! Someday! Someday!ReplyDelete
Good luck, Honey!ReplyDelete
By the way your sunnies remind me of Karen Walker model. :)
Those sunnies are fab! I love this outfit so much!ReplyDelete
ahahaha..at least your Realtor knows her client ;)ReplyDelete
Super chic as always! Happy house hunting!
stellar sunnies you have there miss!!ReplyDelete
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Ohhhh I understand u house hunting it's not funny LOL BTW u look gorgeous, loving your glasses and shoes.ReplyDelete
Those shoes are amazing! Why I love any shoe with a buckle? Good look house hunting. I remember going with my parents house hunting when I was in middle school and thinking we'd never find anything, but eventually we found the house of all our dreams.ReplyDelete
xo Jenny
Love your shoes and face!ReplyDelete
Oh, house hunting sounds like fun. I'm stuck at home for awhile but I wouldn't mind leaving home.I wish I had money to move out.ReplyDelete
I'm glad I'm not the only one who needs another room for a closet. I've always dreamed of a dressing room instead of a closet. One day, one day...ReplyDelete
Those jeans are freakin' awesome! We are in a 2 BR apartment right now, and guess what the 2nd BR is used for? LOL Hope you find the right one soon...ReplyDelete
Love those shades and winklepickers! Good luck looking for a home. I know how tough it can be. We gave up after losing a bid, so we will be looking again soon! Acck!ReplyDelete
Love this laid back look... so effortlessly chic.ReplyDelete
Good luck on the house hunting E! xoxo
The plaid plus the shoes equals perfection. It's math.ReplyDelete
Neato glasses indeed! If I had a go-to outfit, this would be it. Masculine elements are definitely a plus. (: and LOL on the spare bedroom -- my (imaginary) future husband would probably say the same thing!ReplyDelete
Wow, that last photo is so beautiful. You look so intriguing. I hope you find the right house! And girl, you know I kove a plaid and some sunglasses. Excellent.ReplyDelete
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I love hte shoes and the glasses.ReplyDelete
i love those glasses and your plaid top!ReplyDelete
well, this (I shall call it disheveled grunge chic) look works for your, you look good.ReplyDelete
Also good luck in the house hunting, finding the right place can be a daunting task!
Luv ur shoes!!!! xxxReplyDelete
love this outfit, great shoes and glasses!!ReplyDelete
Your sunglasses and the shoes, are lovely!ReplyDelete
i absolutly LOVE your sunglasses!ReplyDelete
love the shoes!!ReplyDelete
There is not a single piece of this fantastic look that I don't absolutely LOVE!ReplyDelete
Beautiful shoes! LOVE themReplyDelete
Yay for closet space!ReplyDelete
Cute outfit too. I love the sunglasses.
Great look!ReplyDelete
Love the boots.
Xo Veronica
an extra room doubling as a closet sounds like a goal i'm working hard to make come true...ReplyDelete
the print on those pants is really unexpected when you see the outfit for the first time. i love it!
you looks great with that sunglasses!!ReplyDelete
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I love the snakeskin print of those jeans.ReplyDelete
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very nice shirt. I like the color of it.ReplyDelete
Great outfit! Good luck on your home search.ReplyDelete
amazing lookReplyDelete
love your shirt.
i wouldnt feel too bad about having a room full of clothes ;)ReplyDelete
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love those sunglasses!ReplyDelete
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oh I love fold in half glasses!!! how fun!ReplyDelete
It's a great time to buy, best of luck in your hunt
I love a good men's plaid, you wear it well. I stole mine from my boyfriend so it was perfectly worn in! Digging the shoes too.ReplyDelete
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How cool are those shoes? And those jeans are such a great find from H&M. House hunting is tiring both physically and emotionally. Good luck to you guys.ReplyDelete
Ooh I didn't know georgetown had a flea market! I'll have to be more hip to the DC scene if I move back to Baltimore this summer!ReplyDelete
Great boots! And how exciting for you two. Getting a house is a ton of fun...especially the decorating part, lol.ReplyDelete


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top of a hill in capadocia, watching the sunset. Amazing view and scent of the russian olive tree. Some random guy offered us wine, but we insist on having olive oil instead, because only olive oil and baguette would be fitting under the beautiful and fragrant Russian olive tree.;
cave picture, ohei Max. underground city: Derinkuyu (deep well), which is an hour of bus ride from Goreme. Very impressive, subtractive architecture. The heavy stone doors are great to block invaders. As a consequence, it is a great summer hill station.
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