The folks over at Popular Mechanics (hey, we read it all baby) bring up some solid points (privacy, effectiveness, and costs to name a few) as well in opposition to this idea.  Really, nothing’s going to get folks more worked up than letting the government keep track of ALL of your movements.  Would kind of make the wearers of tin foil hats seem a bit sane wouldn’t it?  From Denver Post:

The proposal, from statehouse Democrats, calls for pilot projects to study whether the state should do away with its gas tax and adopt a system in which drivers are charged based on how many miles they drive.

“What policymakers are looking at is a sustainable revenue source that they can count on,” said Jim Whitty, an Oregon Department of Transportation official who has become a guru of mileage-based fees.

States across the country are struggling with the weakening of the gas tax as a revenue stream, due to more fuel-efficient vehicles and the political difficulty of raising taxes to keep up with inflation. Colorado is one of several states, including Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, looking at implementing a mileage-based charge on drivers.

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