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Old 05-08-2011, 08:49 AM   #714
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This is a work in progress, and the "real" work hasn't even started yet. Your idea of paying for gasoline after burning sounds intriguing. Maybe some type of credit scheme would need to be implemented? Everyone is allotted an amount of gas credits?
It would be easier to just charge people a flat rate per mile travelled on their credit card at the end of each month. Should be easy enough to do with satnav or iphone type devices. But they will need to do it before electric cars take over, otherwise people will just think it's a con.

Books could be charged the same way, since most reading devices spy on their owner's reading habits in the same way that satnavs spy on their travelling habits.
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