Bicycle-obsessed Earl Blumenauer wants to put a GPS tracker in your car to tax your mileage.

US Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced H.R. 3311 earlier this year to appropriate $154,500,000 for research and study into the transition to a per-mile vehicle tax system. Blumenauer is a long-time advocate of bicycling and mass transit in Congress.
His largest campaign donors stand to benefit from his proposed legislation. One, The second biggest contributor in the current cycle to Blumenauer's Political Action Committee (PAC), the Committee for a Livable Future, Honeywell International, is a major manufacturer RFID equipment, which would be central to the plan. Another top-ten donor, Accenture, is a leader in the video tolling field.

D.A.G. Says: A per-mile vehicle tax system means no matter how fuel efficient your lithium alloy, direct injection hybrid is, the government cashes in whenever you drive. It also means the government knows where you're going. Just in case you didn't figure that out.