Needless to say, this is something that would only be thought of in Oregon!
Question: How do they intend to solve a budget shorrfall, by buying billions of dollars of GPS equipment to make us buy from DMV for our cars? Not to mention how long this would be tied up in court over civil liberties issues....
Oh, and of course, there's the issue of, would it work? No, I know, the tech is there to do it. But you are forgetting who'd be implementing it. When the city of Portland computerized it's water billing system, the billes went out *one year* late and heavily inlfated. And of course the DMV itself grossly overspent on it's last computer binge. Who's to say you wouldn't get a bill, or better yet, a cahrge on your credit card, to the tune of nine million miles?
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To: abcraghead
Geez. They keep on finding new and inventive ways to tax people, don't they.
They preach fuel efficiency and hike taxes in part to encourage people to buy cars that guzzle less gas. It works, and now they try to find a new way to screw you over. Will it ever end?
To: abcraghead
"HalfWhitty"
To: abcraghead
Will this system also include trucks. I already smell a strike if it does. Thank God for truckers.
To: abcraghead
The device in each car would be linked to a Global Positioning Satellite system, or GPS, which allows pinpoint navigation by bouncing signals off satellites. Technical illiterate alert!
To: abcraghead
Is this whole country beginning to sound just a little bit like the old Soviet Union? Pretty soon, they'll just send big brother government to stand outside your place of work on friday & you can just hand over your paycheck to them! First cigarettes & now gas mileage! What next?????
To: abcraghead
It would take years to get every vehicle retrofitted.
With the way things are done here in Oregon it would most likely cost more to impose the program than fees ever collected.
Oregon seems to try and be on the cutting edge but to many dumb asses running the show. IMO.
To: abcraghead
The whole thing is so sad, it's funny, but this line takes the cake: "Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them."
To: abcraghead
Do people wonder if the left is trying to trash the West so badly that when the Mexicans annex it we won't complain about it?
To: abcraghead
Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them.Bwahahahahaha!
11 posted on
12/31/2002 2:42:01 AM PST by
metesky
To: abcraghead
Gawrsh, Mickey, don't they have a device that does this neato mileage measuring stuff already--called an ODOMETER?
What a colossal waste of taxpayers' money and an obvious attempt to infringe on freedom of movement!
To: abcraghead
To: Grampa Dave; Carry_Okie; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; EBUCK; ATOMIC_PUNK; DoughtyOne; ...
GPS ping
17 posted on
12/31/2002 4:15:56 AM PST by
madfly
To: abcraghead
Just wait till the state police (or is that police state) discover that if you can track mileage, then you can also track speed.
To: abcraghead
GPS does not bounce signals off of satellites. GPS is a receiver that gets a timed signal from at least three of 32 satellites for 2D(lat-long) position fix and at least four for 3D(lat-long-altitude). GPS is deadly accurate, and the potential for governmental mischief is certainly there.
To: abcraghead
People will modify the GPS spyware to defeat Big Brother's aim of bilking more money from their pockets. Or after market devices could be added or affixed to a GPS spyware that give a "false reading" of how much is actually owed the government. And who wants Big Brother spying on them in the first place? This is a shtinker of a bad proposal and should be shot down pronto til its dead, dead & dead.
To: abcraghead
OOOh! Great news! and think, when every state has it then we can link it with TIA...to track terrorists...for the children...< /sarcasm >
To: abcraghead
Im really getting sick of this
30 posted on
12/31/2002 5:45:40 AM PST by
ezo4
To: abcraghead
Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them. "Allowed to take part?"
Talk about Big Brother- Speak!
Just like they "allow" us to pay taxes, register our legal guns, and file our income tax returns?
To: abcraghead
If the citizens of Oregon don't start an immediate mass recall, or get whoever dreamed this up fired (I would do a lot worse), then they're dumber than Californians!
I didn't think it was possible.
half of california voters are dumb as rocks!
To: abcraghead
"Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them."First off nobody owns the automobiles they think they own, unless they have the MSO (Which just about nobody has). Everyone has a "CERTIFICATE OF TITLE".
"...allowed" How nice, today you'll be allowed to volunteer, tomorrow you'll be forced to volunteer..
38 posted on
12/31/2002 6:52:06 AM PST by
Mikey
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