"It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told a group of reporters after the commission’s findings were revealed.
However, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood appeared more receptive to the possibility. "We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," LaHood said in an interview with the Associated Press.
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