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Re: Road Pricing

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Subject: Re: Road Pricing
From: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:47:10 -0500
David Breneman wrote:

> --- Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com> wrote:

>>Got a link to this information? I'm really curious about this whole
>>
>>deal. I have just assumed it would be sort of like Cadillac's
>>system 
>>that lets them monitor you in real time.

> I'll search for one.  This is a hot topic in the "underground
> press" here in Washington (ie, it's not getting covered at all
> by the major city newspapers and TV stations), and both Oregon
> and Washington are are researching this system.  It will
> track where you go and when (so that they can tax you more
> for using congested freeways furing rush hour) but there
> isn't the bandwidth to monitor the cars in real time.  The
> proposals here and in Oregon would have a transponder at each
> gas station (hey, conscript Ma N' Pa store owners as tax
> collectors!) that would download the information from your
> car, compute the tax, and add it on to your gas bill when
> you fill up.

The trouble with this method is that it doesn't give them the ability to 
track us in real time and keep track of our speed, an ability they 
simply must want, since it's in line with all the rest of the high-tech 
snooping they need to support the dictatorship they are pushing.

> I'd imagine the Evergreen Freedom Foundation and other
> conservative == libertarian think tanks would have more
> information on it, but I'll need to check.

Since the recent treacherous betrayal of the Constitution by the 
vultures on the Supreme Court, I reckon we now live in a total Communist 
Socialist Republic, so I guess the point is moot. They can do whatever 
they want to do to us now, since they own the big guns, tanks and nukes.

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