Oh The sheer Joy!
 

Of living in beautiful blue and green Oregon. It looks like we will be the first state to pay a mileage tax collected through the use of satellite tracking. Of course, I'm sure this will be used only for tax collecting purposes. The state would never use this to track individual travel or measure speed, right?

Oh wait...how can they not track individual travel if this is to be used to determine miles traveled?

Oregon to try U.S.'s first mileage-based road tax

Just wanted to give a heads up here. Logging off...

Stealth technology just found a commercial application.

How about tourist passing through? How do we pay?

And the prodigal complainer returns...

They are looking for 5,000 volunteers for the pilot project. So, can we assume you will be one of them?

Why on Earth would I do that?

I believe he made his triumphant return and subsequent departure in one fell swoop!:cool:

Paul, glad you're still alive and kicking.

To show us that you are not a complainer. Your response to Paul would indicate you approve of this program. Or then again, maybe not. Maybe it was just an irresistible opportunity to take a childish cheap shot at someone, and the actual topic presented really doesn't mean anything at all to you.

Simply stunning invasion of privacy. How the heck did this get approved?

Thanks for letting us know you're still around, Paul.

Why don't you ignore the true complainers and stop by a bit more often?

All in the name of homeland security....it's not intended to spy on us, it's to keep us safe !

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Is this to be done by GPS satellite or some other means? I could see it being the former, but with some other way it seems a bit expensive/difficult to keep track of.

I'm going to make a wager and bet that this will not " replace " the current gasoline tax, but "augment" it. Taxes never go away , or decrease .
It is the modern world we live in .
Hello Paul!

How is this legal!!! Did you Oregonians vote on this??

Saw the OP and thought for sure this was a thread revival. Welcome back Paul....don't be a stranger ;)

Speeding tickets... same as ever. Haven't you been to Oregon?

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to just take down current mileage at the vehicles annual safety inspection (if the state has one) for taxing purposes? Seems like a big cash outlay for something that is easy to check yearly by just charging for a window sticker.

Vehicle inspection in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oregon doesn't seem to have a state wide inspection but other states do.

ODB huh? sounds about as smart as folks who volunteered for Flo to track their driving for Progressive. Old 911s sound more appealing all the time ! ODB, what's that ???

Yeah, at tag renewal even without an official inspection they could simple ask for a mileage update at renewal.

I suspect some cars will be 'parked with bad batteries'.
Then more legislation and cameras and remote license plate readers and fines and bureaucracy and property taxes to sustain it all.

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