[goldstategop]

I'm afraid to disappoint him. Americans have already accepted a ban on smoking and apparently are resigned to wholesale restrictions on their RKBA earlier generations would have deemed intolerable. The government won't be introducing the GPS measure in one fell swoop. The enemies of liberty never work that way. Instead they'll introduce aspects of it incrementally step by step to minimize potential opposition until the opportunity arises to put the final step in place. People will have lost their precious freedom without even realizing they lost it. What the bureaucrats are now testing is just how much they can get away with for the moment. Everything will be dictated by a need to make sure the sheeple accept what's coming to them. In this day and age the American people are not quite ready to rebel against a government that seeks oppress them in the name of kindness.

[krb]

Noting that gas taxes are unfair because of the large differences in the fuel economy of automobiles

That's BS. Increased fuel effeciency is an incentive to buy a more fuel-efficient car! That "unfairness" is supposed to be a good thing!

[jos65]

Question:

What is "Catch 22"?

[xm177e2]

Noting that gas taxes are unfair because of the large differences in the fuel economy of automobiles, Whitty and the task force explored alternative taxing methods to ensure equity among drivers. Seventy-percent of Oregon's road maintenance revenues currently come from federal and state gas taxes.

This bill should be called what it is: "The Low Gas Mileage SUV Protection Act"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a heavier vehicle uses more fuel, doesn't that mean it's also causing more wear and tear on the road? Doesn't this mean gas taxes ARE fair?

[Glenn]

Wouldn't be a lot simpler to use the vehicles odometer? Idoits.

[libertylover]

Poor Mr. Whitty is running low on wit.
Also, it's funny that these nitwits blame all of our problems on technology and then turn around and want to use technology for more taxes (their real goal).

[vannrox]

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Old news.

Those of us who have been designing emissions controllers and sensors for automobiles all know that the first efforts to track cars came from the Clinton Administration. Was first adoped by GM through pressure from the Auto Unions. Agreed to develop and put it in all their cars in a phased in plan over a 15 year time table.

OLD NEWS.

[trebb]

the GPS mileage tracking tax proposal necessary because "it costs a certain amount to drive on the road per vehicle and people ought to pay their fair share of their usage."

I thought that that was the purpose of all the other taxes - to build and maintain the roads. This purely Dem thinking is one more sign of why we are in dire straits if we don't stamp out the commies (left-wing "liberal" nutcases in the DemocRATic party) in government.

[sticker]

I am so confused. The same type of people who complain about SUVs are now worried that the people driving the SUVs are having to pay a higher amount of taxes because of lower gas mileage. Could someone anyone, please, explain this?

[angkor]

"There was no longer a correlation between miles driven and revenues raised,"

Ummm... I thought that was called the "gasoline tax."

The more gas you use, the more tax you pay. Furthermore, users are taxed on the relative efficiency of their cars.

Any gain they anticipate from this intrusive, Orwellian technology will be offset by the mass exodus from Oregon.

[Old Professer]

It would be far simpler to place a "mass tax" on each vehicle where the heavier vehicle is taxed a higher rate; it would be a simple matter to place scales at gas pumps connected to computers that would adjust the fuel price based on the vehicle weight, a 3,000 pound car would pay the standard gas tax while a 6,000 pound truck would pay twice the base rate, and so on.

Honda Accord: $1.39/gal., Cadillac Escalade: $1.55/gal....