“Here’s your ticket. Oh… and here’s your gasoline bill.”

20 Comments on “ “Here’s your ticket. Oh… and here’s your gasoline bill.” ”

• jaje :
  June 20th, 2008 at 9:01 am
  
  

  You know that’s a bargain if you lead them on a high speed chase as they will spend well over $12 to catch you!

• Stein X Leikanger :
  June 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
  
  

  And soon we’ll have the rubber tire wear surcharge if there’s squealing during the chase?

  BTW - the markets first responded with lowering the price of oil when the Chinese hiked the price of gasoline, then they realized this meant the Chinese weren’t getting enough gasoline for industrial use, and that they wanted to reduce private use — which means oil is scarce, which means the price goes up again.

• William C Montgomery :
  June 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am
  
  

  Great! Do you get to charge the city a fuel surcharge every time you stop and idle at a red light?

• dean :
  June 20th, 2008 at 10:03 am
  
  

  Good one, William. Or how about being idled in construction delays?

• Matthew Danda :
  June 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am
  
  

  This is a brilliant way to draw attention to the massive fleet of gas hogs operated by the US Government.

  Dump the Crown Vics and start driving Focuses!!!

• Landcrusher :
  June 20th, 2008 at 10:41 am
  
  

  MD, you are on the right track. Just wait for the calls from the citizens to put all the traffic cops on 600cc motorcycles. When they can’t find enough cops to take the job, maybe they will reconsider the whole surcharge.

• dhanson865 :
  June 20th, 2008 at 10:52 am
  
  

  Should our police cars look like the French?

  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/French_Police_p1230006.jpg

• SupaMan :
  June 20th, 2008 at 11:24 am
  
  

  Good show William.

  That means I can claim all this gas use to my taxes eh?

  I swear these people come up with such “genius” ways to rip people off.

• 50merc :
  June 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
  
  

  dhanson865 asked, “Should our police cars look like the French?”

  That’s a sharp-looking little Peugot patrol car. I wonder if it’d carry all the gear American police put in their cars, but anyway it’d be interesting to see a life-cycle cost study of how a Peugot or VW compares to a Crown Vic Interceptor.

• bluecon :
  June 20th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
  
  

  Should be a donut tax.
  The cop is about 100 pounds overweight.

• picard234 :
  June 20th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
  
  

  William C Montgomery :
  June 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am

  Great! Do you get to charge the city a fuel surcharge every time you stop and idle at a red light?

  AMEN! This is such a racket it’s unreal.

• carguy :
  June 20th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
  
  

  bluecon - you beat me to it!

• RedStapler :
  June 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
  
  

  Aside from their high(er) fuel consumption the life cycle cost on the Panther platform cars is fairly low.

• ZoomZoom :
  June 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
  
  

  William C Montgomery :

  Great! Do you get to charge the city a fuel surcharge every time you stop and idle at a red light?

  I believe we SHOULD have the right to charge cities, counties, and states for inefficient traffic management practices, one of which is allowing unskilled, inattentive, and just plain incompetent drivers to use the roads, and another of which is making three directions sit and wait for the no-traffic direction’s green light to cycle through it’s fixed-setting.

  This is inexcusable, and the taxpayers have no redress.

  It’s true, government agencies have a monopoly when it comes to traffic management. You and I cannot invent a new traffic management system and bring it to market in a free and capitalistic manner,

  For that reason, I think governemnts have a responsibility to provide an efficent solution. Until then, yes, I really think we should be able to invoice the local authority for traffic ineffencies.

• pfingst :
  June 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
  
  

  From TFA:

  Katie Harris, 20, a babysitter and student at Georgia Perimeter College, doesn’t like the new fines. “It always seems like government officials are trying to take money from citizens’ pockets,” she says.
  

  And yet they continue to vote for the money-grubbing thieves…

  
  Holly Springs Mayor Tim Downing says: “This is a self-taxing system. If you don’t break the law, you don’t pay the tax.”
  

  Typical bureaucratic response. Here’s one of my own: thieving pigs. Greedy stealing bastards. How about they prove that it actually cost them $12 to run me down? That’s asking too much, though, isn’t it. They’re the government, they don’t have to prove anything.

• golden2husky :
  June 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
  
  

  If motorists are going to get hosed for the police using their taxpayer supplied equipment, the police should impose a surcharge on fat cops. After all, excess weight kills mileage, so if your officers look like Jabba the Hut, take $12 a day for excess wear and tear on equipment. A simple paycheck deduction. Post tax, please.

• GS650G :
  June 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
  
  

  So if you win the case in court does the taxpayer get stuck with the bill?

• Droid800 :
  June 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
  
  

  So they’re paying for gas that would be used regardless of if the cops actually pulled any one over?

  I can’t imagine this would stand up to a direct legal challenge; The police and cities will not be able to justify charging those that get pulled over for the gas that would have been pumped regardless of if they actually pulled anyone over. Its like asking taxpayers to pay for something that they’ve already paid for.

• kjc117 :
  June 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
  
  

  Freaking Nazi’s.

• Frank Williams :
  June 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am
  
  

  If fuel prices should drop below the price they used when figuring their fuel budget - meaning they won’t have to spend as much as they projected - will they refund the difference to the taxpayers?

  (Pardon me while I roll on the floor in fits of laughter at my own insane comment.)

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