imported_Bruce Fee

"California has a new excuse for more taxes. Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids, California is cooking-up a new system to punish people who aren't using enough gasoline. They want to tax commuters by the mile. How would this be accomplished? By requiring everyone to install a GPS device in their vehicle, and charge them their "taxes" every time they fuel-up."

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SiR JP

I'm not quite sure how this affects fuel-efficient cars more than any other car. And if that were the case, I doubt it will go through. CARB would have a fit if the state were trying to target fuel-efficient cars, and CARB wields a mighty big stick...

imported_SaYjAiBaO

sucks to live there haha.

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

ppl in Cali are rich anyways

btw, tax by the mile seems like a good idea, I hate seeing 1 person SUVs driving around (like an Excursion used to transport 1 person) haha besides, if you get taxed every time you fill up, wouldn't the less efficient cars be punished more cuz they are at the pumps more often?

Turbo4U

That sounds stupid to me

imported_Bruce Fee

well, when you buy gas, a fair bit of the cost is due to taxes, think of the tax money the government would get from 100 people driving mustangs and cameros day to day as opposed to hybrids and economy cars.

by people moving towards hybrids, a lot of tax money received from gas will disappear..... so they will force another form of tax to get people by distance as opposed to fuel usage.

these taxes go towards fixing roads and government theft.

they need it for both.

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currently

low fuel consumption car
100 Km
$30 gas -> 1/3 taxes = $10

high fuel consumption car
100 Km
$60 gas -> 1/3 taxes = $20


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proposed


low fuel consumption car
100 Km
$20 gas
$0.25 per km tax -> $25
$45 to drive 100km

high fuel consumption car
100 Km
$40 gas
$0.25 per km tax -> $25
$65 to drive 100Km

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bbarb, get it? i made these numbers up... but they demonstrate my point..

imported_kIeRaN

haha, thats gay!

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

good show Bruce Fee... I see what you mean by it.

spracingsports

BOO!!

i say we all boycot for me

Whiplash

won't happen, in the states anyway..
they have ***** enuf to tell their government to FO or pay later..

do i see it happening up here??
shyt ya, we're pussies when it comes to revolting..

wonder what they'll tax next when they lose the income from smokers having to quit??
wanna get laid?? that'll cost ya $50 a pump in case ya get any diseases or ya pop a nut and we have to treat you..

imported_Dawson

that sucks

imported_climax

wow that is pretty stupid. Saving money is a problem so lets recover it by imposing a new tax to take money away from citizens so we can fly around in first class planes to useless trips where we stay in 5 star hotels and waste all the tax payers money on nothing. I think its a pretty stupid tax. I hope that never happens over there or here.

BLACK EMERALD

Come to Toronto will take you.

Don't forget to take the 407!!! lol

imported_climax

^^
the 407 is just another case of pathetic government work. I remember hearing about Petro Canada being sold. wow that could turn out to be really crazy aswell.

Whiplash

Petro Can was sold 10+ years ago..
the government held about 10% of shares which i believe they sold off last year..
that deal didn't lose them any money

V82Slo

Oh, oh, looks like another big brother ploy to incorporate GPS technology into ODBIII.

What prevents the government from having the computer track what speed you drive at and billing you a speeding ticket at the gas pump as well. Or better yet why not monitor how many times you drove to your girlfriends house and have the information faxed to your wife's lawyer to be used in your divorce.

When does it end!? I'm going to develop a system to circumvent this problem as soon as I finish my "black box" blocker for my ODBII car.

nashall

hell no...if that happens, you will be seeing me with my gas can and a hose every where i go...i can just see it a new record high in gas thief

imported_caloge

you just unknowlingly found the whole in the system, by your gas with a gas reserve tanks and putit in your car afterwards, this way you wont get taxed for your cars fuel consumption, and you would actually save money
this will never happen

imported_gatherer

Gotta love government...

lets have a gas tax... but lets also have emissions laws

lets have privacy laws.... but lets have a milage tax with GPS in the cars.

go figure

JetStorm

I heard that the canadian gov is already looking at this and if it's a sucess in the US then they will bring it up. And finiding out how much you drive is easy. You have to punch in your Km's when you renew yor license plate. they will just tax you in a yearly fashion.

I think it suxs because what about those people that have to drive for work? I'm an onsite computer tech so I'm driving everywhere....I'm gunna get bent over by the tax system