JazzMan wrote:

> Bob Paulin wrote:
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>>Of course. now that it has been established that hybrids will use less fuel
>>- thus pay fewer fuel/road taxes - Big Brother has proposed that ALL cars
>>be equipped with spyware - er, monitoring devices - which will determine
>>how many miles have been driven in order to tax the car owner by-the-mile.
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>>Of course, "absolutely nothing else" would ever be monitored - such as
>>speeds driven, locations driven to, etc., etc......
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>>One has to wonder why the government is so enthuisiastic about hybrids.
>>When was the last time YOU heard ANY politician praise a program which will
>>result in fewer taxes collected?
>>
>>Could such monitoring of the general population be but a single reason?
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> What's really funny is that because the CAFE standards have
> been frozen at 1980's levels and with the burgeoning sales
> of gas-sucking SUVs the actual amount of taxes being collected
> per vehicle mile are higher now than they ever have been. So,
> where's all the extra money going? It's being siphoned off to
> pay for invasions of other countries and trying to make up
> the shortfalls caused by the massive tax cuts awarded the
> wealthiest people in the country.

<coughBULL****cough>