gee, $7/gas would be swell

[Butthead]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/

:crying:

[Phatmax]

So are these taxes:

A: To save "the children"

B: To save "the earth"

C: To save us from "ourselves"

D: A thinkly veneered plot to bleed the American taxpayer dry using "environment" as an excuse.

You know, I have always been told that taxes are not used as a method of behavior modification, but gosh, it does seem like they admit it.

[Karl Hungus]

$4 gas got people's attention. Remember when Dodge dealers were offering 2 trucks for the price of one?

I'm against this, btw. I'd rather the next generation deal with this.

[Phatmax]

$4 gas got people's attention. Remember when Dodge dealers were offering 2 trucks for the price of one?

I'm against this, btw. I'd rather the next generation deal with this.

Deal with what? Non-existant eco-disasters? This is simply another government power and money grab, garbed in faulty or outright faked, "earth friendly science".

[Mortalis5509]

So is the answer to everything more taxes?

[DecepticonDon]

So is the answer to everything more taxes?

the government seems to think so.

[Karl Hungus]

Deal with what? Non-existant eco-disasters? This is simply another government power and money grab, garbed in faulty or outright faked, "earth friendly science".

A lot of people have proposed raising fuel taxes simply to get us to use less fossil fuels and to provide incentives to develop fuel alternatives. I'm against that. I've got 2 motorcycles, an F150 and 2 cars that I like a lot. I'd rather your kids deal with it. If it never materializes, that's cool too. But I'd rather just ignore it.

[Hammerhead]

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[Karl Hungus]

I'm not trolling. Just being honest. I actually think it would be a good idea for us to use less fossil fuels, but I readily admit I'm a hypocrite about it. As long as gas is cheap, I'm going to enjoy it. But I don't have kids, so I have absolutely no incentive to give a shit.

[Phatmax]

I'm not trolling. Just being honest. I actually think it would be a good idea for us to use less fossil fuels, but I readily admit I'm a hypocrite about it. As long as gas is cheap, I'm going to enjoy it. But I don't have kids, so I have absolutely no incentive to give a shit.

That is honest, and I appreciate it.

We could use much less fossil fuel and even have lots of electric cars if nuke plants could be built to replace and increase capacity. I don't have a problem with electric cars (well, better range would really help).... except the eco-nazis seem to forget that if you replaced 50 million gas cars with 50 million electric ones..... The MASSIVE quantity of electricity would have to come from SOMEWHERE and 50% of our countries power comes from coal.... Kinda self-defeating... But no one has accused them of being common-sense people.

But at anyrate, unless you are going to die soon, I doubt you want to fuel your toys with 7 buck gas. It would be nice to at least count on you to voice your opinon against this retardation if it ever comes up to vote.

[Karl Hungus]

I'm a lot less concerned about air quality than I am that our sources of oil will eventually run out. The emissions from new cars is almost nothing, it seems to my non-scientific mind. But I believe the people who say that the big oil discoveries and production are dropping.