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Old 11-13-2009, 08:01 PM  
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
There's got to be an ulterior motive since they could broadly tax kilometres driven by increasing taxes on fuel (perhaps with a rebate scheme for more efficient cars)

I'm sure there's even some way to track kilometres travelled without needing to fix location either...

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Agreed. If they want to penalize people for damage to the environment an increased fuel tax does the trick. This is just a very lame excuse to set a very bad precedent IMO. Once countries start cracking the window open on these things it will be hard to roll them back. Similar to parts of the Patriot Act for instance.

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