Bob Paulin wrote:

> 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.
>
> Of course, "absolutely nothing else" would ever be monitored - such as
> speeds driven, locations driven to, etc., etc......
>
> 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?


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. Follow the money, that's
the key, and the money goes to the hydrocarbon fuels industry.

JazzMan
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