Mtp.DRIVER DOOMSDAY: Gavin Newsom’s California Unleashes “Mileage Tax Monster” After Secret Pilot Success — Big Brother Tracks EVERY Mile, Fees Set to Skyrocket to 30 Cents, Crushing Families and Freedom in the Golden State’s Green Nightmare!
California Liberty Chronicle – November 30, 2025
SACRAMENTO – Buckle up, California drivers: Your freedom’s about to hit a pothole the size of the state budget deficit. In a move that’s got wheels screeching from San Diego to Shasta, Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration is flooring the accelerator on a dystopian “mileage tax” scheme, fresh off a six-month pilot program that’s been hailed as a “resounding success” by state bean-counters. Say goodbye to your gas pump anonymity—hello to a GPS nanny state that knows exactly where you’ve been, how far you’ve gone, and how much it’s gonna cost you to breathe free on the open road.
The bombshell dropped quietly last week, as the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) wrapped up its Road Charge Collection Pilot— a creepy experiment that turned 5,000 unsuspecting Golden Staters into lab rats, logging over 37 million miles of Big Brother-approved driving from August 2024 to January 2025. Officials are now crunching the data like a demolition derby, with a full report slated for lawmakers by December 2026, but insiders are already leaking the verdict: It’s a green light for the mileage monster. Why? Because California’s crumbling roads—chewing through $8.5 billion a year in pothole patches and lane repairs—are starving for cash, thanks to Newsom’s electric vehicle obsession that’s left gas taxes (the old reliable funding machine) coughing up dust.
Picture this: Over 1.2 million hybrids and EVs now clogging the freeways, a number exploding under the governor’s iron-fisted mandates for zero-emission fleets by 2035. These eco-warrior rides sip electrons instead of gasoline, dodging the state’s sky-high 68-cent-per-gallon gas tax (the nation’s priciest, locked in at 57.9 cents excise plus 10.5 cents sales as of mid-2024). Result? A $5.5 billion revenue black hole by 2030, per nonpartisan analysts, turning the nation’s most car-dependent state into a bankrupt backwater. Enter the Road Charge: A per-mile shakedown disguised as “equity,” where every tick of your odometer dings your wallet.
At first blush, it sounds like pocket change. Pilot manager Lauren Prehoda, in a rare moment of candor, told reporters the initial rates would hover at a “modest” 0.5 cents per mile for low-income drivers or 2 to 4 cents for the rest of us plebs—about $200 to $400 a year for the average 12,000-mile commuter. “I highly doubt it would ever get to a level that would be 30 cents per mile,” Prehoda soothed, as if that weren’t the screech of a getaway car fleeing the truth. But critics— from taxpayer watchdogs to Silicon Valley libertarians—are howling that this is just the appetizer in a feast of fiscal fleecing. “It’ll start at pennies, then balloon like the state deficit,” warns Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association CEO Jon Coupal. “Remember the gas tax? ‘One-time adjustment,’ they said. Now it’s the highest in America, funding everything from bike lanes to celebrity chef school lunches.”
The real gut-punch? Privacy Armageddon. To make this mileage magic happen, you’ll need a plug-in GPS device, app, or odometer photo uploads—turning your Chevy into a snitch on steroids. The pilot tested it all: black boxes beaming your routes to Sacramento servers, apps pinging your location like a deranged Uber, even “anonymous” mileage logs that somehow know if you’re joyriding to Yosemite or just circling the cul-de-sac. “This isn’t a tax—it’s a tracker,” blasts Sacramento civil liberties attorney Rachel Stein, who’s already filing suits. “Newsom’s selling ‘sustainability,’ but it’s straight-up surveillance state. Who wants the government logging your trip to the ex’s house or the casino?”
Reverberations are ripping through the state like a Caltrans road crew on meth. In Los Angeles, where gridlock already devours 100 hours a year per driver, carpool moms are forming “No Mileage Tyranny” Facebook groups, vowing recalls if this hits the ballot. Up in rural Fresno County, where folks log 20,000 miles hauling produce, farmers are torching effigies of Newsom’s EV dreams, screaming, “We can’t afford this green guillotine!” Even Hollywood’s blue-bloods are whispering revolt— one A-lister, speaking off-record, griped, “Gavin’s turning paradise into a pay-per-mile prison. My Tesla’s zero-emission, but now I’m funding his woke whims?”
Newsom, ever the slick salesman, spun it Friday at a Sacramento EV charging station ribbon-cutting: “This is about fairness—everyone pays their share for the roads we all use.” But with the state drowning in $68 billion debt and homelessness camps sprouting like weeds, skeptics smell a scam. “Cut the waste first!” thunders Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher. “Billions blown on high-speed rail to nowhere, celebrity climate summits—fix that before you chain us to the odometer.” A new UC Berkeley poll shows 62% of Californians opposing the charge, with 78% in the Central Valley calling it a “driver’s death sentence.”
As the report looms, the clock’s ticking on California’s crossroads: Will lawmakers slam the brakes on this Orwellian odometer outrage, or let Newsom’s mileage monster devour the last scraps of driver dignity? One thing’s clear—the Golden State ain’t so golden anymore. It’s a tollbooth trap, and we’re all paying the fare. Rev your engines while you can, folks—freedom’s got an expiration date.
Jax Harlan is a senior investigative reporter at the California Liberty Chronicle, exposing the Golden State’s regulatory rampage. Got a tip on government overreach?
