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Title: Federal plan plots ignition interlocks on all cars
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Phx Business Journal
URL Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/ ... l%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Published: Mar 20, 2012
Author: Hoover
Post Date: 2012-03-21 11:57:02 by bush_is_a_moonie
Keywords: None
Views: 217
Comments: 11
Better not have that glass of wine at dinner or happy hour beer -- your car may not start if Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the U.S. Senate have their way. The highway bill passed by the Senate last Wednesday includes two provisions that are causing indigestion for the restaurant industry, at least establishments that serve alcohol. First, the legislation appropriates $24 million for a federal program that could lead to the installation of alcohol detection systems as standard equipment in all vehicles. Second, it would provide $40 million in financial incentives to states that require anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated to put ignition interlocks in their cars. These devices are supposed to prevent people from driving if they’ve had too much to drink, but the The American Beverage Institute said they also would prevent many people who have had little to drink from driving their vehicles. Instead of the usual blood alcohol concentration limit of 0.08, the devices likely would be set at 0.03 or 0.04 percent for legal liability reasons, the institute maintains. The devices aren’t 100 percent accurate. “Even if these alcohol detection devices were manufactured to be reliable 99.99966 percent of the time, it would still mean over 4,000 misreadings per day,” said Sarah Longwell">Sarah Longwell, the institute’s managing director. “That means every day, thousands of sober drivers could find their cars locked down by a faulty interlock.” The institute also contends that first-time DWI offenders who have low-alcohol content shouldn’t be forced to install ignition interlocks in their vehicles. Instead, that requirement should apply only to repeat drunken drivers and people with high blood-alcohol content, Longwell said. The institute is lobbying the House to reject these provisions of the Senate highway bill, which are strongly supported by MADD. The House, however, may not even take up the Senate highway bill, which provides $109 billion for highway and transit programs over the next two years. House leaders prefer a five-year bill, but they’re having trouble finding consensus on how to pay for it. Current highway funding expires at the end of this month, so another short-term extension is the likely outcome. That extension probably wouldn’t get into controversial issues like alcohol detection systems. So for now, go ahead, have that pint or glass of wine. Just don’t have two. Only have one thing to say to the govt.... ON YER KNEES AND HOSE ME PLEASE!
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#1. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
The Safety Party is on the loose again, and they've gone MADD.
A people that would and could throw the bums out in the voting booth never has to. - Prefrontal Vortex
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's bitch
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's bitch
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's bitch
We need to start Drivers Against Mad Mothers (DAMM) to lobby the senate to repeal this.
Vote absentee. It is a paper ballot Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war. People will just disconnect them.
"You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
it would be tied into the blackbox systems like onstar and send out a tamper signal bringing the pigs right to you thanks to the GPS in the blackbox.
I expect they'll have an interlock you use if you want a reduced insurance rate. Then the pigs will find ways to use/abuse that stored info. More fascism from the usual suspects.
These devices can be defeated for $3.00. Just purchase an old fashion rubber punch ball, inflate it when sober and keep it in the trunk until needed.`
Just purchase an old fashion rubber punch ball, inflate it when sober and keep it in the trunk until needed.` No matter what the government does, people will find a way around it. "You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
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#4. To: bush_is_a_moonie, *Jack-Booted Thugs* (#0)
#5. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
If you believe in small government, then you shouldn't be in the White House.
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#7. To: Turtle (#6)
If either Moromney or Mammyjammyobammy win the November (s)election peoples with common sense will pray that December 21 2012 will indeed be the end of the world!
#8. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
If either Moromney or Mammyjammyobammy win the November (s)election peoples with common sense will pray that December 21 2012 will indeed be the end of the world!
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#10. To: IRTorqued, Turtle (#7)
it would be tied into the blackbox systems like onstar and send out a tamper signal bringing the pigs right to you thanks to the GPS in the blackbox.
#11. To: Buzzard, IRTorqued (#10)
These devices can be defeated for $3.00.
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