[pp.int.general] Big Brother in NL?

[Richard Stallman]

    1. It does not just "penalizes people for burning petroleum", it is also a 
    measure of road usage. Building and maintaining roads is expensive. 
    Maintenace requirements directly depend on usage.

It is easy to measure traffic on a road without tracking anyone.  But
there's no need to measure traffic merely for the sake of maintaining
roads.  You can simply resurface each road when it needs resurfacing.

    2. Unlike fuel taxes, road pricing allows people to incent for not using 
    roads during rush hour.

Avoiding congestion is plenty of incentive to travel at another time.
Rather than trying to push people harder to travel at other times, it
is more effective to look at what factors lead them to travel when it
is so congested, and try to reduce those factors.  For instance, do
lots of employers demand that their employees come to work at 9am?  If
so, maybe push the employers to change that policy.