Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Speeding tickets

[ken rentiers (rentiers]

I'm just sitting here watching the Tour de France. All the bikes have  
little transponders on them the size of credit cards...here in the  
USA there have been proposals recently to abandon the fuel tax and  
impose a mileage tax using GPS technology. Why? Isn't a fuel tax  
better if your goal is to encourage fuel efficiency? To lower CO2  
emissions?

Or is there a hidden agenda to increase revenue by constantly  
monitoring everyone's speed? Such has been proposed in the UK. Then,  
if you have a revenue shortfall, it then becomes a simple matter of  
lower the speed limits to even less realistic levels, while hiding  
behind the "safety" curtain. Statists never rest.

They want us all on the bus

k

On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:29 AM, jimshadow [at] verizon.net wrote:

> And having been hit a couple years ago in the Ferrari, I'm a little  
> skittish on close traffic.   I had the Scooby in front of me and a  
> Yukon right on my ass....it certainly WAS safer for me to be away  
> from them, but for mister "by the book".....he only saw black and  
> white!
>
> Jim
> ------Original Message------
> From: Larry B
> To: Jim
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Speeding tickets
> Sent: Jul 14, 2009 9:24 AM
>
>
> Yeah, I hate that "logic."  I once passed -- quite safely, with  
> plenty of room -- a few cars that were bunched up in front of my p- 
> car.  They were probably going around 50 in a 55 limit area.  The  
> officer had absolutely no sympathy for the sensible argument that  
> it was a lot safer to pass at a speed in excess of 55, thereby  
> dramatically reducing the time in which I was in the opposing lane.
>
> > From: jimshadow [at] verizon.net
> >
> > I got my first ticket last Thurs in the Ferrari. I was behind a  
> > slow moving Subaru (he was going 35-40 in a 55) so when traffic  
> > cleared, I passed. A County boy was behind an approaching truck.  
> > He said I hit 71 before slowing back to 55. He was by the book.  
> > Said that its NEVER ok to exceed the posted speed......PERIOD. And  
> > he wrote me up with a smile......
> >
> > Bummer!
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