Black Box to track Oregon drivers? Read on...
#1
Black Box to track Oregon drivers? Read on...
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?St...5-031322-1742r
PORTLAND, Ore., March 25 (UPI) -- Oregon is testing the idea of collecting highway funds through a tax on miles driven, rather than gasoline consumed.
Eighty percent of Oregon's highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrids, highway revenues would take a hit, The New York Times reported.
The test program uses a global positioning system to track miles driven, using a black box to calculate how many miles are clocked in-state, out of state and during rush hour.
The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues.
"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.
Eighty percent of Oregon's highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrids, highway revenues would take a hit, The New York Times reported.
The test program uses a global positioning system to track miles driven, using a black box to calculate how many miles are clocked in-state, out of state and during rush hour.
The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues.
"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.
#3
Me to......but either through gas tax or miles tax, they are going to be getting your money.....I prefer gas tax since the only way to do miles driven is by collecting at end of year or in some type of allotment.....
#6
Seems logical to just raise the gas tax as we use less gas instead of coming up with some stupid way of charging us more for nothing.
Maybe a good plan would be to add up the cost of maintaining and upgrading the roads for one year and divide that by the number of gallons usually sold and that should be the tax rate on the gas. So what if you get better mileage and pay less than the gas guzzler SUV it will all even out in the end.
Maybe a good plan would be to add up the cost of maintaining and upgrading the roads for one year and divide that by the number of gallons usually sold and that should be the tax rate on the gas. So what if you get better mileage and pay less than the gas guzzler SUV it will all even out in the end.
#9
^^^^hahahahahaha thats funny! studs all year round
jsut raise my freaking as prices...i dont care. i drive...ALOT i'd rather pay more for gas than owe 1500bucks at the end of a year.
i swear if Bush has something to do with this ima assasinate his ___ myself!!! GRRRRRR
jsut raise my freaking as prices...i dont care. i drive...ALOT i'd rather pay more for gas than owe 1500bucks at the end of a year.
i swear if Bush has something to do with this ima assasinate his ___ myself!!! GRRRRRR
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