Oregon Looks to Legislate GPS Mileage Tax, Faces Privacy Fears

DailyTech ^ | December 31, 2008 | Jason Mick

[Still Thinking]

Uh, in trucks? What’s your point?

[Still Thinking]

As for filling your gas-cans instead of your fuel tank, that trick will work just fine.... right up until the day your park your pick-up at the pump and are greeted by a sign saying "Effective immediately, all fuel not dispensed directly into a vehicle tank is subject to a 3000% price surcharge." No problem. Even now they make crossbed toolboxes that are about 50% fuel tank. No reason you couldn't extend the concept to about a 100 gallon or so tank. The weight would come out about right for a half-ton.

[LouD]

You can’t track peoples every movement if you do that. And those movement records will most likely discoverable in any civil action.

Exactly.

[LuxMaker]

Star Traveler wrote:
"There’s no other way around it — other than letting the roads deteriorate where hardly anyone can drive on them without damaging your car or having dangerous driving conditions (like bridges falling down, for example... LOL).

How about time to think outside of that box you are living in a little bit more. To save a ton of money in the long run, we could easily create 10+ year roads, using concrete with the right hardener and old tire strip reinforcement, but instead I see them repairing the same asphalt roads in the same spots just about every year. This goes beyond insane.

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well that fits perfectly with what is going on here.