States droping tax on gas !!

[jszarecki]

ok, this sux. either way my odometer doesnt work, and its way past its limit anyway. Also, someone said somehting about teh 30 year rule for CA. IM from NY, but ive been in San Diego for a few years and just got my Z reg'd. vice smoggin' ... did i miss something? its every car older than 30 years right?

[Bambikiller240]

ok, this sux. either way my odometer doesnt work, and its way past its limit anyway. Also, someone said somehting about teh 30 year rule for CA. IM from NY, but ive been in San Diego for a few years and just got my Z reg'd. vice smoggin' ... did i miss something? its every car older than 30 years right?

Not sure I understand what you mean. Your odometer doesn't have to work. The GPS will track your movements all on it's own without an odometer.

The 30 year rule is GONE in the CA. It was previously set up that there was a rolling 30 year period where Smog checks were required, thus in 2010, a 1980 model car would no longer need to pass a Smog Check Now the way it works is that cars newer that 1975 model year will be required to get a Smog Check, and it will stay capped at 1975 model year cars.

[jszarecki]

i guess thast good for me...but that really sux... whast so speacial abotu '75'ers? hmmm? stupid.... :mad:

[LanceM]

Couldn't it just record and transmit data to any number of fixed location receiving stations without a powerful computer in your car? Heck, look at all the crap they stuff into a cell phone sized package now days.

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Transmitting the data would be a nightmare in it's self, the airwaves are packed already, cellphone bandwidth is packed so the check it when you get gas makes the most sence. But here's the biggy, let's say Ca starts this, and you fill up and take off for Reno, spend a week there traveling around and get home on an empty tank and 800 miles later, should you have to pay for 800 miles of CA road tax?? Unfair taxation, sounds like tea party time to me... So you would need a computer to keep track of inbounds and out of bounds locations for CA tax or Arizona, New Mexico, whoever.. And what if I drove out to CA from IN and we just pay by the gallon, how do I pay in CA??

How about I own my car in say LA and drive around there, then trailer the car upstate somewhere and drive around and stop for gas, since my last position and my current position is 300 miles I should pay tax on that???

So you can see that yes it is possible to do, is being done on a small scale, but needs to have a lot of thinking done before it becomes a possible reality in such a large scale.

I'm sure that there are those in Govt that want that control over us, to be able to "watch" over us to keep us "safe", or just because they have no control in their life they have to try and control ours that they will push hard to make this come about. I think that we should fight such controls but even if we loose it isn't going to become a working reality overnight. Just my $.02..