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Just Because You Can .. A Rotten Idea |
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 14:40 |
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GPS Tracking for Gasoline Tax
The Kansas City Star reports that there are trials underway at the University of Iowa involving GPS tracking for tax enforcement. With a target date of 2020, they will need those 11 years of lead time to handle the first round of lawsuits.
The notion is that as fuel efficiency increases, revenues from the gasoline tax go down. The tech solution is to place GPS trackers on every vehicle and then read them remotely and send a bill each month based on the exact miles driven. This would, supposedly replace the 18 cents per gallon gas tax with a mileage tax of 1 or 2 cents per mile driven.
There seem to be an increasing number of things that get investigated without thinking - and this is a prime candidate. Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
Or maybe you'd be willing to sell your right to privacy of movement for half a penny a mile ? If your auto gets a bit better than 20 mpg and the gas tax is roughly 18 cents, you'd "save" 16 cents and be able to drive around 32 miles on the difference.
This sounds like a non-starter. And the EFF and ACLU have not even begun to sharpen up their knives. As well they should.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:04 )
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SDRNews at Drupal Camp Colorado |
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:59 |
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Drupalcamp Colorado
Thanks to SDRNews Associate Kara Karsten who provided on site at the Colorado Drupal Camp - learning more, meeting people and getting the insider's view on what makes a Drupalcamp tick. Bigger than a Meetup, not the scale of a Drupalcon.
Twitter hashtag #drupalcolorado
The full list of interviews are on the Drupalcamp tab, but here are some of those who were interviewed today. We are working as fast as we can to get them posted this evening and tomorrow.
10:15 Greg Knaddison
10:45 John Stacey, Google Summer of Code Intern
11:00 Pat - Monarch Digital
11:30: Salim Lakhani, WebEnabled
12:00 Ryan Szrama, ubercart
As they say, "Film at 11:00" |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:29 )
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