Posted on 08/08/2022 6:48:53 AM PDT by rktman
Agreed. You know what the basis for Congress’ month long August recess is?
Heat
Biting Horse Flies
I think windows without screens or windows nailed shut goes well with your suggestion.
If hilLIARy had won ‘agenda 21’ (I believe) was a their plan for the year 2021.
Now they are planning it for the year 2030.
The most feasible scenario is that all infrastructure will be funded through surcharges on electric utility bills. It won't matter if you drive an ICE vehicle, an EV, or no vehicle at all.
That is what Illinois does. They charge the EV owners an extra $100 or so for the yearly license plate renewal. The question is how do the feds get their pound of flesh..
Sorry, that's not going to work.
Texas, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, South and North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississipi, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Arkansas will secede from the Union.
And this time we got NUKES.
“total elimination of air conditioning for businesses and homes.”
That should cause the South to secede from the union a second time.
Hot and sweaty people get very very angry....
;-)
With technology as it is today, it would be cheap and easy to
install an app in all vehicles (required to start car).
incentivize masses to install a fuel/energy app on their phone by telling them its a special program that discounts the cost of fuel and electric used to power their vehicle.
Fuel and Electric providers will happily assist the Government effort to market their product and collect the data from every transaction.
What you would end up with, is a refueling point that requires no clerk or register. Instead, the charges would appear on your monthly energy bill (because gas/fuel/electric become a Government service w/each kiosk acting as a digital revenue agent)
Game over, your car doesn’t move without the government knowing when, Where from, where to, how far, how much energy/fuel used and likely what the topic of the hour was.....
If you think about it, we’re 99% , there already
Exactly...no need for any real-time surveillance state. 'Tain't "rocket science"....
Makes too much sense, not invasive enough.
“”They don’t like us ordinary folks being able to just drive anywhere we want, how far we want, in any direction we want.””
Exactamundo.
In the Soviet Union they required ‘papers’ to travel anywhere outside one’s immediate area. The dirty Big secret is that they did not issue any ‘papers’ to over 80% of the people.
If you did actually have your ‘papers’ you needed to prove, each and every day, that you were a good little commie. At any time, and for any reason, your ‘papers’ could be revoked, and access to transportation ceased.
I’ll go you one better, eliminate DC.
What a great idea! If they believe in climate change surely they will be happy to contribute
And if you drive on vacation in other states, that mileage will be taxed in your state not theirs. This is one reason they are pushing universal monitoring. To make it more "fair". Of course, the fact that they get to track people's movements is just an incidental and unintended side-effect of this.
We have lots of toll roads in Florida. I pay a minimum of $900/year in tolls. And, at current prices, about $3600/year for gasoline. And I don’t really drive that much...mostly the 250 miles each way between my South and central Florida homes once a month. One of my cars almost never leaves the garage...675 total miles in 4+ years.
“Develop vehicles that defy gravity by magnetism and we could eliminate a large portion of infrastructure maintenance.”
Actually, that would require INCREASING the infrastructure!
“The question is how do the feds get their pound of flesh?”
Here in Virginia, the VA State Income Tax is initially based on what is reported on the Federal return. From there they apply the various VA state exemptions, exceptions, rules,etc. Something similar could be done with the EV tax. The mileage value reported for one becomes the initial value for the others.
How many millions of cars, trucks, etc. are there in the United States? Maybe that’s what most of the 87k new IRS employees will be doing: checking mileage claimed against odometer readings.
“Hi! It’s the IRS. We are here to check the odometer readings on your cars.”
And the IRS thinks it’s unpopular now…
That is what the smiling ICE folks don’t quite get. Do they really think this will be limited to EVs? This has been proposed for years, and buying in to teach
those ‘EV fools’ a lesson is a fools game.
Have the EV owner show up at the DMV every 12 months for odometer inspection with time stamped photos take, Your odometer has advanced 12000 miles. Then you get charged 12000 miles worth of road use taxes.
A problem automobile will be newer hybrids that you can also plug in at home. In this case the automobile manufacturer needs to have a port that a DMV flash drive can be inserted into for a readout
The current leftist administration in maine wants to do this.
We already have to report odometer readings
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