Posted on 03/03/2010 5:33:00 AM PST by RogerFGay
To meet the Obama administration’s targets for increasing fuel taxes, researchers say that Americans will have to pay $7 for a gallon of gasoline; about 17 percent more than drivers in green-conscious and generally highly taxed Sweden.In their study, researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs devised several combinations of tax increases to address 70 percent of the oil used in the United States. The combinations were selected to match fuel consumption reduction targets. Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.
Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say
This makes them very dangerous.
I noticed “Tax” not cost to drill, move, distil and sell.
So my monthly gas bill should go from $300 to $700 so I can feel good about the earth? Riiiiiight!
Better get the Focus paid off quick, looks like I’ll need the extra money.
Someone should force Obama to read Bastiat's "Broken Window" essay.
America will come to a standstill.
So much for the Harvard educated.
We don need no steenkin’ Harvard educated fools.
“Apparently not caring what it does to them”
They are doing this because they have dismissed or not even thought of consequences that are going to destroy them. By acting in the manner they have; the backlash against them will be far worse than they ever can imagine.
There are times I am tempted to turn my diploma toward the wall, lest anyone think me a fool.
...against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC (Liberals)
They have succeeded in making me believe they are out to destroy us.
1. Gunny G Says:
March 3, 2010 at 8:39 am edit
“If our political representatives were prevented by effective constitutional limits from treating us as children incapable of solving most of our problems through productive market cooperation with each other, there would be much less need for supermajorities. But those constitutional limits have eroded badly at every level of government.
When governments can tell us how much water we can have in our toilets, what light bulbs we can buy, how much garbage we have to save for composting, how much electricity our televisions can use and how much to subsidize corn farmers when we buy gasoline, it is difficult to think of controls that are out of bounds.”
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“…and we ain’t got a hair on our @$$es…”
$7/gal gas will be a real hit with Americans and the economy! Heheh!
Needless to say that “hopey and changey” stuff does not sound so good.
**** *** Barack Sheik Obama
So can we say the science is settled on this subject?
Don’t worry, the RINO types will bargain that down to six dollars a gallon and call that a win.
yup, bail out GM and then destroy their sales by making it impossible for most of America to buy gas. Cant buy gas? Cant go to work.
Now we need a greater welfare system.
Bastard brains Barry at work, destroying America, building AmeriKa...Flippin mental midget.
It really does seem all of the CIC (clowns in charge) have a degree from Harvard.
well, at least you turned out okay. LOL
To meet the Obama administration’s targets....Americans will have to pay $7 for a gallon.
My fondness for firearms increases congruently.
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