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GOOD NEWS FOR
MOTORISTS?
Recently I reported that the EU is proposing to use the satellite GPS system
to effect road pricing etc. initially in the UK, but it was expected to be
technically possible throughout the EU. This is where a “black box” would
be fitted in every vehicle (at the owner’s expense) and the owner billed
periodically for the distances travelled during the preceding set period.
Well, it appears that the EU has a major problem where unless the
proposed EU Constitution is accepted by all countries, it cannot legally be
initiated.
BUT BEWARE THE APPROVING OF THE "TREATY"; THE CONSTITUTION BY THE BACKDOOR.
Also, as reported the project,
like all government run and sponsored projects, it is running well over
budget and the UK has already spent nearly £500 million to date. To cover
the out of control costs it has now been proposed that there be an
additional tax levied on all GPS
devices sold in the EU. That is not just
the car devices but all the hand held ones as well. The current GPS
activation used is from the US/NASA satellite system which is free.
The EU politicians expected to pay for the system by road-charging (as
proposed in the UK), charging all civil aircraft that entered EU airspace
and to sell missiles and other hardware to China which would use the Galileo
set/up. The vehicle charging would have been possible unless civil
disobedience by most motorists caused it to be cancelled, and we can imagine
especially the American airlines that use the free NASA system happily
paying for the non-use of Galileo. Apparently the Chinese have already been
made full partners in Galileo and have walked off with the technology and
are setting up their own satellite system. And the Galileo funding schemes
have just about fallen apart now which explains the lack of cash to complete
the system, the road charging systems are being discovered to be technically
unworkable at this time, and the commercial companies actually installing
Galileo have pulled out at this time due to no pay.
As
the EU proposed Constitution is not in place yet (it has been rejected by
two countries and would probably be as well by the UK if a national
referendum is used), the EU therefore has no mandate from all the EU
countries to actually establish Galileo. So once again, it looks as
though the politicians, the unelected ones in Brussels this time, have been
sailing the EU ship without an experienced and efficient navigator. At
this time, it looks as though the UK may have to write off the 500 million.
I wonder how much council taxes that would pay and for how many years?
Or increased pensions for those who made Britain great before it arrived in
its present unhappy state? That is why all of us must be very
careful about accepting the “proposed treaty changes”
that means that the current rejected by some Constitution will be
established in another name. TRUST
NOBODY!
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