I will not hyperventilate, I will not hyperventilate, I will...

...hyperventilate.

Oregon legislators are thinking it would be really helpful to them if they installed GPS in every car in the state in order to implement a "vehicle mileage tax" :

Under a VMT a motorist would pay a tax for each mile driven, probably around 1.25 cents. To administer this tax, a global positioning system would be mounted in each car. As a driver fuels up, the device would relay mileage information to the gas pump, which would calculate the VMT. A simple electronic odometer-reading device would do the trick, but Oregon is looking at GPS devices because they would also allow for charging higher VMT rates for miles driven in "congested" areas during rush hour or to exempt miles driven out of state.

OK, government lovers anywhere: Do want the gov't to know where your car is at every moment? Of course you do. You cannot conceive of the noble, selfless public servants ever misusing that information, can you? Not even if BusHitler ever turns out to be the real thing, which you don't believe is currently true, because even you are not dumb enuf to be publicly attacking Nazis on their own turf.

Brendan Miniter has the story in the Wall Street Journal. It's all about collecting taxes from those rotten ppl who use fuel-efficient cars, and therefore don't currently pay their "fair share."