this idea has been kicking around in Utopian-kook think tanks for several years now....a by-product of the opinions that a) the world is going to run out of petroleum soon, so how will we finance our big heping govt. if we can no longer tax it? and b) let's create a dis-incentive for people to move out to the suburbs and drive more miles.
Sounds like Oregonians are going to be the lab-rats for this. Original plans call for mandatory GPS monitoring of all vehicles to get the mileage totals right, so get ready for total surveillance out there!
"Mr Smith, while performing your background investigaton we discovered that you have amassed 2023.2 hours driving over the speed limit' and on June 12th 2004 you spent 3 hours at Porky's strip club. Would you like to make a written statement explaining this?"