Speeders to pay extra for police fuel
 

Seems as if the police are picking up ideas from the airlines:

Speeders to pay extra for police fuel
HOLLY SPRINGS, Ga. — The surging price of gasoline has come to this: a "fuel surcharge" on your next speeding ticket.
Drivers caught speeding in this north Atlanta suburb soon will have to pay an extra $12 — to cover $4-a-gallon gas costs for the police officers who stop them.
The City Council passed the fee hike, effective July 1, to offset fuel prices that have eaten up nearly 60% of the police department's 2008 fuel budget, Police Chief Ken Ball says....
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...ngticket_N.htm

This makes some sense to me.

I think the idea and purpose makes a great deal of sense as well.
However, where I live, there are already fees and surcharges added to just about all tickets that one just has to wonder where all the money is going to.

I think it's to be able to afford gasoline.

I don't like this idea, call me crazy, but its not my responsibility to pay for a cop's gasoline. Especially when the cops here are constantly driving 75+ on the highway (when the speed limit here is 60), they use their sirens to get through red lights (and then turn off the sirens once they get past the red lights), and other dumb things like that.

To catch speeders, the cops pull to the side of the road and just wait. i'm sorry, i'm not going to pay for their gas for the 3 seconds that it takes to pull off the shoulder (or turn the corner) and pull me off the side of the road.