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Good article by Eric Peters.
"Joe Biden and the Republicans – without whom Joe Biden could not have done it – may have just outlawed cars that can’t be tracked without actually outlawing them, per se. Instead, they will be regulated away – the new trick in government’s dirty bag thereof.
It might have caused a ruckus to propose a law outlawing older vehicle without Onboard Diagnostic (OBD II) electronic data collection ports, GPS transponders or some other, similar means by which a vehicle can be externally tracked – using the pretext of keeping track of its mileage that way, so as to tax its owner that way. This being bad enough all by itself, being invasive enough all by itself. Instead of paying gas taxes anonymously at the pump whenever you fill up – possibly with cash – the federal government will tax automatically and electronically you by the mile, wherever you drive.
Which will also give the government – and the insurance mafia, which is also effectively the government, just ex officio but endowed with governmental power to make you do things or else – the power to monitor how you drive, since the same OBD data port/GPS that will be used to keep track of mileage can also keep track of how fast you drive as well as where and when you drive.
Everything about your drive will, in other words, be known unto them.
That is one of the many treasures hidden within the just-passed – by enabling Republicans, who provided the necessary support for the Democrats who confected it – “Infrastructure” bill. Which only has about 20 percent to do with building new roads and bridges or fixing the ones that exist and 80 percent to do with funding various projects that almost no one wishes to fund voluntarily, as by paying for them willingly. Things like Amtrack and related forms of government-controlled herd transit. Also “green” things such as electric car charging stands and of course electric cars, themselves that cost plenty of green – all of it to be extorted from the public that would otherwise never freely pay the cost of it.
Hence the need to fleece and force them to.
Thanks, Joe!
But the real thanks are due to the Democrats who identity as Republicans that made it so. The ones who voted for the above, which also includes the pre-crime conviction of every American who drives – who is henceforth to be considered presumptively drunk and – as was once done to convicted drunk drivers – not allowed to drive until his car determines that he has not been drinking. Even if he doesn’t drink. Even though he has never been so much as accused of ever having driven “drunk.”
All new cars will be fitted – at our expense – with some kind of alcohol detection technology functionally the same as the equipment courts sometimes order convicted DWI offenders to have installed in their cars that prevent the car from being driven if they sense the driver has been drinking. The difference being no conviction will be the prelude to this degradation of all American drivers, commencing just as soon as the new regulations can be articulated.
Which brings us to the way they’ll regulate older, pre-OBD and GPS and similar follow-you-around technology cars off the road under the pretext of taxing by the mile:
Cars without such follow-you-around technology cannot be taxed-by-the-mile. Not electronically. Not automatically. They have mechanical odometers that would need to be read manually, by some form of government busybody. They cannot be read in real time, as you drive – in order to dun you as you do – which is what Biden and the Republicans have just decided they are going to do to all of us. Not without retrofitting them with some type of electronic transponder, at any rate."
This is more people control and surveillance of the people by tracking us every where we go. Just like the do in China.
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Honors N.C. Motorcycling Pioneers "Doc Ski" Wasileski and "Big Al" Champion
Published: Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 @ 12:02 am
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos slammed Democrat President Joe Biden on Sunday for trying to claim that his administration had lowered the deficit amid skyrocketing inflation.
Published: Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 @ 12:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former President Donald Trump has declared his very first move after victory in 2024 will be to make himself head of the new Disinformation Governance Board.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:43 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Appearing on Fox News with host Sandra Smith, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley bashed President Biden, saying it was unlikely he would stand up to Russian President Putin’s threats to Ukraine
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The House of Representatives faced backlash late this week over a plan to use taxpayer money to give staffers in Washington, D.C., and in district offices across the country, free Peloton memberships while the American people feel the pain of soaring inflation rates.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:29 pm
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Soylent Green, here we come?
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 4:55 pm
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Democracy at work?
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 4:49 pm
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This morning, Mattel announced the launch of a new Barbie-themed toy: a pregnant Ken doll. The move has been hailed as an exciting step forward for trans inclusion.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 12:23 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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In the robbery-infested areas of San Francisco and Oakland, California, some residents are so fearful of having their cars broken into that they are deliberately leaving their car trunks open so robbers won’t shatter the windows.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:04 am
By: Daily Wire
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos slammed Democrat President Joe Biden late Friday evening for trying to connect skyrocketing inflation rates to corporations paying taxes.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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During a press conference aimed at praising the Commander-in-Chief's flawless track record, Press Secretary Jen Psaki begrudgingly took a question from some gloom-and-doom journalist describing parents' struggles in finding baby formula.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:40 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin was reportedly secretly recorded telling a Western businessman that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “very ill with blood cancer.”
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:26 am
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A scandal broke this morning when an anonymous source leaked that Disney had artificially ballooned the weekend box office haul for Dr. Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness by including sales from throughout the multiverse in the final ticket count.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:21 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said Sunday that he thinks there’s a “good chance” President Joe Biden did not attend the 122nd annual Army-Navy game this weekend out of fear of hearing the popularized anti-Biden chant “Let’s Go Brandon” in person.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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MORRISTOWN, TN—As an expression of love, devotion, and infinite gratitude, local husband Jerbis Dorvney waited until after midnight on Mother's Day to ask his wife to change their kid's stinky diaper.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:11 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal suggested that the company is making staffing changes in anticipation that the $44 billion deal to be acquired by Elon Musk may fall through.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 10:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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