A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — via a mileage tax and satellite technology — could work.

Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next step.
“As Oregonians drive less and demand more fuel-efficient vehicles, it is increasingly important that the state find a new way, other than the gas tax, to finance our transportation system.”

When the task force’s study and test were in the news in 2006 and 2007, critics worried that the technology could be used to track where vehicles go, not just how far they travel, and that this information would somehow be stored by the government.

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. Read More

What I see here is another way the government can keep track of the American people. Not only that but its been on the news that Obama will raise Fed gas taxes so that the $1.60 we’re paying now will be as high as $3.50 per gallon. This Gov. which is a democrat is thinking ahead of Obama’s tax increase.  Do we want the government knowing how many miles our car is driven and maybe know where we went with it?