DAVIS SIGNALS PLAN TO SIGN SUV LEGISLATION

THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW | M. Garrett

[Digger]

RISH said also that the courts would overturn it. How?

[Kozak]

Just out of curiousity could someone explain to me how they are going to collect a tax on every mile driven in a truck or SUV??? More jobs for the drive police???

Elementary my dear Watson. Odometer chcek when you get your smog certificate.

[stars & stripes forever]

It's time for SUV owners in California to do a mass SUV demonstration around the Governor's mansion, just like the farmers did on tractors and the truck drivers did in their semis in Washington D.C. to protest the high gasoline prices.

[Brookhaven]

Hey! It is not very nice to point out the fact that most SUV drivers drive as though traffic laws do not apply to them.

As a group, I don't think SUV drivers are any better or worse than other drivers. I think SUVs get this rap for the same reason tractor-trailers do. When you are driving a smaller car, they seem like big, imposing vehicles that could crush you like a grape. A lot of people are scared of them.

[dts32041]

California Dreaming on such a winters day.

BTW how is ALTZAC getting on with its campaign to return CA to the original conquerors of the Native inhabitants.

CA and Mexico two entities that deserve each other.

[Grampa Dave]

Hey Bozo, I have been driving SUVs for two decades and have zero tickets in my suv's!

I see more Nazi pos's like you running lights, darting in front of trucks and other Bravo Sierra than I do people driving SUV's!

In fact the most dangerous driver in Kali is the whacked out/pot smoking old hippies with the old volvos and save the whales, sore loserman stickers and Save Tibet stickers all over their Volvos. The next most dangerous is the elite liberal in his/her Boxer or some other hot sports car.

The last guy who told his people what car to drive, the Volkswagon, was sent to hell.

So how long have you been a liberal or a closet enviral Nazi liberal?

Only Nazis try to tell people what vehicles to buy and drive. You are no conservative. Go to DU where you belong, you car Nazi!

[stars & stripes forever]

I would also add that each SUV should have SIMON stickers in their windows.

[GSWarrior]

politically it would be like trying to force all the men in the state to date Maxine Waters.

Please, I just had lunch.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.
Not a big surprise to see Davis signing this!

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[Dimensio]

In my case it seems to be the area in which I live and the types of people in that area who are most likely to have an SUV. While there are a lot of bad drivers in the area in which I live (speeding in excess of 10mph on street roads, changing lanes without signaling or even looking -- often across a solid white line, blabbing on cell phones, running red lights), a higher percentage (though not necessarily significantly higher) of them drive SUVs. It might be that the drivers are too self-important to consider that traffic laws apply to them or it might be that they have an SUV because they need to drive lots of kids around and those kids create an additional distraction, but it seems that when I look at SUV drivers in the area where I live I see a greater percentage of morons than I do from those who drive cars.

[Go Gordon]

They will make it mandatory and it will drive up the price of SUVS. Then, of course, when it is found to be full of flaws they government will sell you the "fix."

Sounds like it will put a lot of car dealers out of business when Californians go to neighboring states to buy their SUV's (sans the extra $3500)....

[hattend]

I hope all the CA SUV voters are paying attention

If they aren't now, they will when they get their auto registration renewal (which has to be the only way they will be able to collect). I can see it now...how many odometers are going to be disconnected with a 2 cent a mile tax?

[Dog Gone]

The fact is that this bill doesn't specify how these reductions in greenhouse gasses are supposed to occur. CARB won't have the authority to impose these taxes or limit the size of vehicles.

What they will have is the authority to draft regulations which might include those changes, but those would have to be approved by the state legislature before they could take effect.

This is stupid liberal feel-good legislation, much like the requirement that 10% of all new vehicles sold in California are supposed to be electric. I don't think they've met that mandate, and they won't meet this one, either.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Actually, what they will do is collect the tax when the car is sold. That way voters don't have to pay it every year, they will only get that little 'surprise' when they go to sell it. This will end up gettin' real uggly. But it certainly is an opportunity for the Republicans to make some hay...

[arthurus]

I have been thinking of moving to Colorado

That is ALL Colorado needs! more Californios moving in and bringing their California solutions to problems perceivable only to Californians. Colorado is already sliding down the hillside in the sea of California mud that has immigrated. C'ians get nervous about all the restrictions and laws that C has passed, at all the new restrictions on freedom and at the gargantuan hole that is California education, and they leave- go to Colorado ( or Montana or Idaho) to get away from the regimentation and corruption. Then in their new homes they vote for the laws and politicians that will "save the environment" and will "save the children" and will keep their new neighborhood from changing by stripping people of their property rights and lo! in a few years they have that C that they fled all over again and Colorado is a new Californicated hole.

[Kobyashi1942]

The bill will affix a tax of 2 cents for every mile driven in an SUV, MiniVan or truck, 50 extra cents per gallon of gasoline, and $3500 on all SUV, Minivan, or truck purchases.

Nice try. These points have been deleted from the bill that is now before the governor. I agree that it is a bogus bill, but we don't have to lie about the facts now to win our points. Or do we?

[Lion Den Dan]

Oh Goody. I will start my PC Jugo modification business.

1. Buy up all of the old Jugos, Corollas, Fiestas etc. that I can find.

2. Convert them to a rolling fuel tank complete with tow bar, no engine required.

3. Tow them to tha gas station, fill them with gas (100 to 150 galons) and tow them home.

Hooray, no criminal SUV gas tax.

[SC DOC]

Friends of Southern California Highways

[RetiredArmy]

Probably have to report your mileage each year as you renew your tags, then receive a bill in the mail. Like your property tax bill comes.

[hattend]

Wouldn't it be relatively easy to install a type of "governor" device into the odometer of cars that would track this sort of information? I don't know, just asking.

Hmmm...got me thinking. All new SUVs will be mandated to have a LoJac or OnStar system. Then the legislature will create the California Department of Satellite Location and Revenue. Their job is to monitor 16 million vehicles and send you a bill. It will soon be bigger than the IRS.

I knew there was a reason why I will never accept a GPS in my car as a "feature"...unless I buy it myself.

Only in the PRK. Wish my mom would move so I wouldn't have to visit.