Comment Re:first??? (Score 2) 142
I believe that would fall under the takings clause thus the government would have to provide compensation to all individuals who could no longer own their vehicles. The real bitch would be all of those old collector vehicles that instead of being worth a few thousand dollars are worth 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars. Having just been to one of the largest car shows in the US this past weekend you would be talking a non trivial amount of money even for the US government. Granted the value of these cars varies wildly but a lot of people with those cars have more money in them than they are worth so in such a state how would something be valued under the taking clause, the sum of the parts, appraised value, what ever the US Gov tells you? Add in that almost every one of those vehicle owners would likely file a suite against the government contesting the valuation and things would grind to a halt very quickly.