From my source in Switzerland comes the revelation that the EU is planning to institute, effective after 2009, a law that would require all EU citizens to pay for their gasoline with an RFID card. No card, no gas.
The original story on this appeared on the German website Die Goldseiten.de (The Gold Site, a financial news site) this morning. My source informed me that the site is copyright protected (you can’t right-click copy any of the articles), so he had to re-type the entire article into Google Translator for me and it came out rather garbled, but the gist of it was fairly clear.
Among the provisions of the draconian development is a plan to eliminate the practice of shopping for the cheapest gasoline by going to where it is sold cheapest. This is to be eliminated altogether and all gasoline across Europe would be priced the same and available only to RFID card holders.
You may wonder why you should care about what the Europeans are having to put up with, but consider that what is happening now in the United States was happening in Europe a decade or more ago and the pace at which it is happening, both in the EU and here is now accelerating almost daily. Eventually, the same restrictions to your daily life will begin to appear here at home.
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