<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe321e86-cb24-4549-bdf0-42f72911dc68/614D9DD5-4341-42DA-A64D-55100727F4AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.edn.com/blog/1700000170/post/1360048736.html" href="http://www.edn.com/blog/1700000170/post/1360048736.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.edn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edn.com/blog/1700000170/post/1360048736.html">So I guess governments all around the world are seeing that vehicle <A href="http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/6677">telematics can be used to report the mileage, speeds, locations and times that a car travels</A> and, voila, they can tax you for your use. In some ways this is a needed advancement. One of the problems with electric cars and plug-in hybrids is that they don’t use gasoline. Oh, sure, that is the whole point to you and me, but governments need all the tax money they get from fuel taxes so they can build <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge">bridges to nowhere</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edn.com/blog/1700000170/post/1360048736.html">If you worry about the big brother aspects of this like I do, note that we are already there. Most modern vehicle engine control units (ECU) already records speeds and such. Police routinely have the modules examined after a fatal crash.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/614D9DD5-4341-42DA-A64D-55100727F4AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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