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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:54 PM Original message |
Oregon proposes taxing EVs by miles driven - and tracking them with GPS |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. I would hope a tax like that would be thrown down in court |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. How would you propose the roads be funded? Maybe we should privatize them? |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. So you are comfortable with them tracking you by GPS? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Can you show me a law that proposes tracking you with GPS? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's a Big Oil issue, Mr. Starr, and the primary reason |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Invasion of privacy anyone? |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. Notice a Republican is proposing this. |
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al_liberal (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Look again. |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. OK that makes more sense. |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Since realistically all motor vehicles should undergo an annual... |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That (will be) the NZ system |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. I'd have to pay about 110 dollars a year for that. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. The GPS tracking is an egregious violation of privacy and unconstitutional on its face, IMHO. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Agree - I'd submit to an ODO check, similar to smog certification |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Indeed, perhaps the ODO can be linked to the charging stations... |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yeah, let's take away an incentive for people to move to this technology while it's still in the ear |
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