Some jerk-store from the from the Oregon House of Representatives named Wayne Kriger (email here) wants to make bike's register in order to be able to use the roads. Read about it here.
It should come as no surprise that this guy is not a bike rider. Only a car loving republican would propose something like this. He wants to take something that should be encouraged (biking is good for traffic, personal health and wellness and the environment) and he wants to discourage it. Plus, here's some big news for this idiot, bikers already are paying for the roads with their taxes and car registrations. Just because they have a bike doesn't mean they don't have a car, too.
I don't usually blog at 8:30am, but I'm so pissed off about this I had to let it out while it still burns in my veins. We should be thinking of ways to encourage people to bike. If the republican party wants to really start making a difference I think it would be a good start if they pulled their heads out of their asses. Ugh, I know this guy doesn't stand for every republican, but it so clearly illustrates their thought process that I can't help but dump on the whole party. And I'm not fan of the democrats either (politicians in general are a hindrance to actually solving problems), but at least they aren't trying to take away my bike.
To quote the famously un-liberal Charlton Heston, "You can pry my bike from my cold dead hands".
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