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Oregon to pursue mileage tax <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/12/28/news/local/1aaa02_road.txt" target=_top>http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/12/28/news/l ocal/1aaa02_road.txt</a> <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>The task force’s final report came out in November 2007. It was based largely on a field test in which about 300 motorists in the Portland area and two service stations took part over <BR> <BR>10 months, ending in March 2007. <BR> <BR>A GPS-based system kept track of the in-state mileage driven by the volunteers. When they bought fuel, a device in their vehicles was read, and they paid 1.2 cents a mile and got a refund of the state gas tax of 24 cents a gallon. <BR> <BR>The final report detailed the technical aspects of the program. It also stressed the issue of privacy. <BR> <BR>“The concept requires no transmission of vehicle travel locations, either in real time or of travel history,” the report said. “Accordingly, no travel location points are stored within the vehicle or transmitted elsewhere. Thus there can be no ‘tracking’ of vehicle movements.” <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR>Yeah, next thing you know, the Governor's trip to his mistress's house would be front and center, eh????
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