This is a small part of a documentary I have from before the housing bubble burst. I like the analogy of the 6 Asians and 1 American stuck on an island. Interviews the wall streeters and banksters

Also...the greater the time spent commuting to and from work...the less of your life there is to actually benefit from it..and the greater likelihood you will die doing it.

Computers and home offices thankfully have helped quite a bit...but obviously won't help for everyone.

As said, all "countries" pay pretty much the same. The difference in price to individuals is due entirely to domestic government policy. Higher fuel taxes would only mean people in the US (who can't afford it) paying more money to other people in the US (who can't do anything with it to solve the problem).

There are no practical alternatives to the current individual transit "problem" in the US, and no policy change will push any known alternatives over the top into feasibility in the near future. So what you're asking amounts to little more than a regressive wealth redistribution scheme. Whether it's out of naivete, jealousy, or malice, I couldn't begin to guess. But it is most certainly foolish.

As time goes on, prices will inevitably rise, but at the same time, alternative technologies will continue to mature. The government already offers massive subsidies for the development of "clean" technologies. But as evidenced by the prices for such, they're still far from practical. Strapping the little guy down and sticking him in the rear isn't going to change that--only time can.

I have an idea:

Smash the GPS with a hammer, and throw it into a lake (or bury it).  Or use the GPS as a dogs' chew toy.  Throw the GPS tracker to Fido as a frizbee.  That would fool the Feds, because the device would still be in motion.  Once destroyed, the Feds can't track you, and you'll once again regain privacy (for now...).

Although you would get in SERIOUS trouble if the Feds found out you broke it and it "belonged" to you.

And i'm only joking.  I don't think this will pass anyway (yet...)

I think I vaguely remember an incident where someone discovered a GPS on their car, and they had very serious charges levelled against them for tampering with government property...which they never wanted on their car in the first place, no one told them it was government property, no one told them it was there. 

You're already resigned to failure.  Not good.

Hardly. The point is that only time and necessity can drive innovation. Artificially inflating prices to punish people for something they can't change and funneling the cash to whoever gives the right "campaign donations" does not.

Which is why every politician should have a bullet with their name on it... and when they fuck up and/or fail to serve the people who elected them, they buy that bullet.  There's just too much corrupt deadwood sitting around in political establishments sucking the life's blood out of their electorates.

As one might conclude, I don't like politicians... nor bankers.

Edit.

 Did I spot a pirate in the crowd?  

Sadly, Gillard survived and will continue doing a disservice to Australia by remaining PM/in office.

Aye me bucko, I 'ad one o' me men thar.... 'e stealed one of 'er shoes wiv the idea o' chuckin' it at' er, but them thar minders got in tha way 'n it missed.

starkers...

That attack on your PM ... ANY PM is unacceptable behaviour suitable ONLY for some pathetic excuse for a third world country.

The fact is "IT'S UN-AUSTRALIAN' in the truest sense of a much-maligned phrase.

I don't care that you hate the PM, but I care LESS for your comment here.

Yeah, it was a bit over the top... but then so is she, well a lot over the top, not that we'll get an apology from her.

Anyhow, I'm not really a thug and do not condone violence, especially against women.