Coming soon to a highway near you...

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30wedge said:

Why are they worried about funding infrastructure when they aren't worried about funding the stimulus programs?

The Biden Admin is going to do everything in its power to destroy the American middle class. They want to end up with a political ruling class and a dependent lower class.

They could give a **** about how to pay for this, just an excuse to take money from everyone's pockets.
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The Fife said:

My truck is over 50 years old. Unscrew speedometer cable, problem solved!
Then they ban cars and trucks over 20 years old because of their "dirty" emissions.
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Win At Life said:

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bmks270 said:

This does not require vehicle monitoring, only roadway monitoring. Toll systems are quite sophisticated these days and they can know your distance traveled along major highways by plate readers, you don't need a device on your car. Believe me, I got a barrage of toll bills in the mail with my toll locations and photos of my plates when my toll pass credit card had an error.

Much of the infrastructure is already in place for roadway monitoring and toll by plate. It also preserves more privacy than vehicle monitoring. It's still somewhat invasive as to a vehicles whereabouts, but not nearly as invasive as vehicle monitoring.
There was even a game show where people were given a head start and were tracked down by the shows experts. The group that evaded for a given length of time were the winners. How the experts tracked people was an eye opener for me.
A couple years ago, a semi-retired guy I knew made interstate hot shot deliveries for a little money and to get away from the wife for a time. When he was in Florida, someone on his Facebook joked about him bringing drugs back. He was stopped in Louisiana for absolutely no traffic violation whatsoever and spent 3 hours on the side of the road while they completely strip-searched his truck. They let him go without so much as a warning. Not a single traffic violation to cause the stop and search. he knew his rights, but he also knew it would be a bigger pain in the ass to fight them, so he allowed it. You will never convince him they were not tipped off by his friend's Facebook post and license plate trackers.


That happened to a friend of mine in the early 1990s before GPS was in common use.

He was from the RGV, and his truck was registered at his parents' house. He was doing a post doc research project with USACE in Vicksburg. He had a roommate doing the same. Roommate had been travelling and flew into Jackson, so my friend had to pick him up at the airport. Flight was late, and they leave Jackson to head back to Vicksburg after midnight. State trooper follows them, runs the plate to see the truck is from McAllen. Two unrelated males in a pickup with one suitcase in the back. They were there for a while.

The cop told them 9 of 10 vehicles they pull over on that highway from South Texas are running drugs.

It happens more than you think.
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The Fife said:

My truck is over 50 years old. Unscrew speedometer cable, problem solved!
LOL...my 38 year old truck's speedo cable doesn't connect to the modern overdrive transmission I installed to get better gas mileage and pay less fuel tax....screw you, gubment!
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Buttigieg comes up with the queerest ideas.
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Buttplug looks like the guy from mad magazine





The world needs mean tweets

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Trump 2024
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Looking forward to all the leftists who bought EVs thinking they would get out of some spend only to have it come back and most likely at a higher rate than what they were paying for gas.
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Tramp96 said:

Hey Pete - it already exists...it's called a gas tax.

I commute 40 miles to work, 80 miles round trip. I'm paying plenty of tax already for that "privilege".

So do you hate your job or your family?
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Need to look at the fact that folks with electric vehicles are not helping with the road/bridge taxes normally collected off gas. To my understanding, some states have started to try and collect but last I heardTexas is not one of them.

So playing the game based on the cost of electric vehicles and who can afford, electric vehicles are.......
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Racist EV drivers need to pay more
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The Fife said:

My truck is over 50 years old. Unscrew speedometer cable, problem solved!


Same.

I can get that '77 C10 back on the road in a heartbeat and drive 0 miles at 10mpg for the rest of my life.
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It's a liberal's solution to the issue of low driving range on electric cars. Make driving anything beyond their current range more expensive.
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30wedge said:

Why are they worried about funding infrastructure when they aren't worried about funding the stimulus programs?


They think it will fix the joblessness issue they're creating.
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Pete is very qualified for the job. He LOVES to travel and proposed to his husband at an airport.
 
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