Too Much To Dream

Blame the envirobastards in Portland.

The State might be "considering" it, but I doubt they'll actually even attempt it. They're too busy threatening the state with no schools and no prisons and dead insane people everywhere because we refused to vote in a tax increase, and expected the mto actually, y'know, spend the money they took more wisely.

The practical issues alone suggest that such a system would never be implemented, even if it wasn't political near-suicide (people, oddly, don't seem to like such systems very much). (Think of all the infrastructure issues in simply getting the data, let alone in getting useful infromation out of it, and billing in a vaguely accurate manner. Portland can't even manage accounting for its water works.)

Oregon's socialist bark is generally far worse than its bite, fortunately.

I know something these statist fuckers don't: I live in Oregon.

They can put a GPS on me when they pry it into my cold, dead hands...

Yeah. As an Oregonian myself, I seriously doubt this is going to go through. Even here in The Democratic People's Republic of Eugene, this idea isn't gaining any real support. It'll go down in flames.

I don't think any of the "good old boys" that I grew up around on the coast will be terribly excited at the idea of having the state mandate that they install GPS units in their "rigs" either ;)

"They can put a GPS on me when they pry it into my cold, dead hands." - definitely my Quote of the Day!

Incidentally, this sounds exactly like the congestion charge that Mayor Ken Livingstone has just introduced in central London - £5 every time you enter a zone between Hyde Park and the City area, all policed by - you guessed it, the quintessentially British solution to all your surveillance problems! - CCTV. Doubtless the rest of the world will be watching this experiment. Be warned.