Big brother wants to ride along

Interesting story in several ways. As more people switch to hybrid cars, the states are getting less money from gasoline taxes. I can't imagine this having much of an overall impact at this point, at least around here, where every other vehicle on the road is an SUV or large pickup truck, but that is their argument. The kicker is their solution to this. It's not "adjust the gasoline tax". It's installing a GPS device in your car, to track everywhere you go, "so they can compute mileage", and tax you by miles driven. Now if that isn't a thinly veiled ulterior motive, I don't know what is.

Bizarrely, this story barely touches on the privacy issues.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/14/eveningnews/main674120.shtml

Way to go, penalizing people who buy environmentally friendly cars, btw.

Shazam gonna kick yo ass

Not my usual post. This is pics of me when I was three or four.





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