Oregon is looking for volunteers to participate in an experimental program to tax drivers of electric and hybrid cars by the mile rather than add the tax at the pump. Washington Times: Oregon’s Department of Transportation is hoping to get 5,000 people to volunteer to install a small device under their steering wheels that will track their mileage and charge drivers’ credit cards  one and a half pennies for each mile driven, Fox News reported Friday.  Transportation officials say the growing numbers of electric and hybrid cars has left the gas tax flat and unable to fund road maintenance. “We’re trying to make up for a growing deficit, really, because inflation’s eating away at our ability to buy asphalt and rebar and the things we need to maintain the roads,” Tom Fuller of the Oregon Department of Transportation told Fox News. Oregon was the first state to impose a gas tax in 1919. That tax has now reached...(Read Full Post)