lets do some science experiment to save them with some kind of invasive red colored bacteria that replicates at an exponential rate or something!

Worse, the large majority of such efforts also seek to not merely read odometers, but typically also want to install tracking devices into most roadgoing vehicles including those which don't already have them. You should trust that bunch like you trust a bucket of scorpions. Their intentions are neither honest nor altruistic.

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The oceans represent a tragedy of the commons situation in realtime. Pollution and trash (especially plastic) has been a major problem for a long time and nobody cares because the public has the attention span of a gnat and outrage moved onto trendier things.

Danth

Technical note, imgflip uh images do fit in the [img] tags

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Greenwald, nooooo.

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I've been saying for two years now that as EVs get more and more popular there will be talk of installing mileage meters and moving away from a gas tax to a mileage tax, and getting a tax bill in the mail from it.

Pains me to say this but it does make sense. The more you drive the more tax you'll pay, just like the more gas you use the more tax you pay.

I dunno if that made it into the final version.

Give it 10-15 years when EVs are the most popular vehicles on the road and it will be.

Such talk is how you know their motives are a something of a false front, a way to get their foot in the door--Already have a mileage meter in any car built in our lifetimes, it's called an odometer.

I dislike usage-based taxes for roads in general--really basic infrastructure should be funded out of the general budget because all of society benefits from it, not just vehicle owners. However, that argument was lost when the first fuel taxes were passed and our chance to fix that mistake is likely going to lose as well because Uncle Sam won't willingly give up a chance to suck more money out of people. That being said I can tolerate it. I can live with it if they a) repeal fuel tax (no double-dipping) and b) do it by having the BMV eyeball your odometer when you get your renewal. Necessary staff and offices are already in place to do it, even! Problem is what they quite often try to package with it. I am not okay with them using such as an excuse to engage in ever-greater tracking. Like I said, I trust their motives like I trust those of a scorpion. The progression of technology (in this case horses to powered vehicles and now to electrics) was not supposed to invalidate basic liberties like the ability to travel without being under the constant eye of Big Brother.

Danth

lets hope it just murders the car itself and forces a lot of american cities to use more mass transit and bicycles, as that would be several sets of birds with one stone... like physical fitness and pollution and less power for car manufacturers

(lol yeah right)

shamelessly stolen from the neolibs