I hope that some enterprising reporter or investigator finds out how much money McDonnell’s election campaign received from the trucking industry.

I don’t think this will pass the Senate, but we’ll see!

It would not be easy to implement but there are several ways of doing it. The easiest for VA would simply be to include odometer checks with the annual safety inspections. It wouldn’t differentiate between miles driven in VA and those elsewhere, but it’s not much different from filling up in a neighoring state today after having driven most of the tank in VA.

GPS and other systems would provide much more accurate and fair systems, but privacy concerns would surely prevent them from ever being used (except possibly in commercial vehicles). The links in my original post describe some possibilities.