Big brother watching your every mile

[JB73]

i have ridden a milwaukee city bus 1 time in my life, and a commuter bus 1 time also.

something i will never do again.


granted the commuter bus was to a music festeval, so the puke was probably from some over-eager partier.

the gum was on 3 seats i counted, 1 lump was so big it looked like a whole pack of bubble gum was chewed at one time, must have been 5 inches across and 1/4 inch thick in some places.

the city bus had and elderly minority that smelled so bad i was secretly retching even on the other end of the bus. let alone the overall filth. i felt i needed to burn my clothes, and boil my hands to sanitize them

[JB88]

i just dont think that it is about that...not for one lilly livered minute.

the thing is...if they were to provide good public transportation, then people would use it.  in a smog infested tar town it is a responsible thing to do...not to mention what it can do for saving the hassle of traffic jams.

but please oh please...dont try to tell me that would be taxing me for my own good.  no.  no.  no.  (x infinity) (squared and topped with pretty little NEGATORY)

i pay enough as it is and i dont want to give government another dime until they pull thier collective heads out of thier arses and start learning how to balance a frooking budget and quit blowing cash on world domination.

(pant pant)

MMRRRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHNNNNN!

ahem.

i digress.

[SOB]

I might buy the idea if they were basing registration fees on mileage.  Instead of a convoluded mess involving GPS trackers in every car and having no idea what you're going to pay for gas when you get to the pump.  ODOT should pull their heads out; it's bad enough they won't raise the freeway speed above 65MPH.  

Also, I think we should have a new rule: You are ineligeable in Oregon for state office or public employ above worker bee if you were born in Kalifornia.  Plus, we should stop all immigration from Kalifornia immediately.  Maybe set up a wall at the border with barbed wire and land mines.

[JB88]

almost forgot.

the day that they track my movements by GPS will be the day that it is registered over my,cold, clutching at thier freakin eyeballs,  torn apart by some robots body.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by SOB
I might buy the idea if they were basing registration fees on mileage.  Instead of a convoluded mess involving GPS trackers in every car and...  

I think we should pay highway tax based upon how much fuel we use.  If I had a Hummer 1 that got 8 miles to gallon, I should pay more than somebody in a hybrid getting 60+.  Maybe a tax on each gallon of fuel.  I wonder what the start-up cost of that system would be?

[Octavius]

"public" transportation. it's for poor welfare collecting people with credit so bad they can't get a library card.

Holy **** 73, that is assinine and you know it.  Screw your stereotypes.  Here's another one:  You are a sheltered-suburbanite-racist moron.  Take off your black and white goggles.  Non-urban *******s think they see the big picture oh-so easily.  And you wonder why racism and class segregation exists... of course not with you.

Siaf, it certainly isn't that bad, but public mass transport is nowhere comparable to that of Europe, Germany in particular (which I have used).

Public transportation may blow goats, but it *is* an option that may people depend on, not only the poor that 73 speaks of.  But there isn't anything I hate more than the Milwaukee County bus drivers.  Why even have turn signals and gigantic mirrors if they're gonna cut you off and force you into oncoming traffic anyway?

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

There already is a tax on each gallon of fuel.

The problem with taxing how much fuel you use is that while you hurt those that desperately need to be hurt, soccer moms driving their death wagons while applying makeup, yelling at their kids, and talking on the cell phone, you really hurt the industries that need large vehicles to stay afloat. Construction, delivery, ect.

Catch 22.
-SW

[SOB]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I think we should pay highway tax based upon how much fuel we use.  If I had a Hummer 1 that got 8 miles to gallon, I should pay more than somebody in a hybrid getting 60+.  Maybe a tax on each gallon of fuel.  I wonder what the start-up cost of that system would be?

LOL, that could work too I suppose.  I was just stipulating that if something was going to change, I might be agreeable to a mileage-based registration fee schedule.

[SOB]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
There already is a tax on each gallon of fuel.

I think he was using the sarcasm.

[Shamus]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I think we should pay highway tax based upon how much fuel we use.  If I had a Hummer 1 that got 8 miles to gallon, I should pay more than somebody in a hybrid getting 60+.  Maybe a tax on each gallon of fuel.  I wonder what the start-up cost of that system would be?

Maybe a better way would be if you have a car thet gets great mileage you should pay by the mile, poor mileage pays by the gallon, best of both worlds.

shamus

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
There already is a tax on each gallon of fuel.

Really? Good call SOB

...you really hurt the industries that need large vehicles to stay afloat. Construction, delivery, ect.

Catch 22.
-SW

Large vehicles tend to wear the infrastructure more than an Insight.  Big commercial vehicles pay PUC tax.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Originally posted by SOB
I think he was using the sarcasm.

I see.

Brains working on the level of MrBlack today, not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.
-SW

[Holden McGroin]

The reason this GPS BS started to come up in Oregon is that, believe it or not, the bozos in Salem (No offense SOB) thought they would lose highway tax if fuel milage got better.  They actually saw high fuel efficiency as a problem.

[SOB]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Really?

Two demerits for the use of the gay rolleyes smilie!  You disgust me.

[Holden McGroin]

I had to do something to point out sarcasm. Half my jokes on this BBS go unrequited