GPS Tracking For Cars

The government is wanting to impose a tax on the distance a person travels in their car, instead of taxing fuel. They say they were not prepared for people to drive less and drive more fuel efficient cars and they are not making enough money from fuel taxes now.

They are planning on gps devices for cars to track how far a person drives. Do you think this is right? What are your opinions on this?

Best Answer: I consider it a invasion of privacy. How many rights does this violate?

I heard of them wanting to tax gas more as a deterrent for using foreign oil. I don’t think that is a bad idea but only if they wait until we have more options on electric cars. Right now, we don’t have a choice.

• Any increases in taxes are a bad idea. The USA must, absolutely must, learn to consume less energy. We have no choice. We have sold off trillions of our economy to countries that hate us. What the government must do, is reduce imports, and the prices will rise accordingly. We will learn move freight out of ineffficient tractor-trailers onto railroads. We will build railaroads where there are none. We will learn to build and use mass-transportation. And we WILL learn to deal with smaller, more fuel efficient cars.

  Taxing won’t reduce consumtion, and dependency on foreign imports for energy.

• Gas tax revenue has not kept up with the cost of building and maintaining roads and highways and a commission has recommended an increase in the gas tax. You should consider federal and state gasoline excise tax as the toll you pay to use the roads. As an alternative to increasing the tax per gallon, the commission suggested exploring ways to impose tax based on road usage but this would be difficult to implement for many reasons. If you want good roads you have to pay for them. How do you want to do it?
• A link would help because it all sounds out of place.

  Is under determination or study, and it would be for electric car or vehicles that do not use gas but use the streets, to collect for repairs as gas cars do.

  Quite different of what you mention.

• They fail at most of what they try to do…if they just use common sense and realize that they need find a different method to fund the road ways that has nothing to do with vehicles.
• Yeah. I heard about that on the radio. What will they think of next.
• Unbelievable. Makes me want to punch them.

  How did we elect these a holes?