Posted on 12/11/2014 7:08:04 AM PST by Citizen Zed
A left-coast writer named Mark Morford thinks that gas prices falling to $2 a gallon would be the worst thing to happen to America. After all, he says, the wrong people would profit: oil companies (why would oil companies profit from lower gas prices?), auto makers, and internet retailers like Amazon that offer free shipping.
If falling gas prices are the worst for America, then the best, Morford goes on to say, would be to raise gas taxes by $6 a gallon and dedicate all of the revenue to (boondoggles) “alternative energy and transport, environmental protections, our busted educational system, our multi-trillion debt.” After all, government has proven itself so capable of finding the most cost-effective solutions to any problem in the past, and there’s no better way to reduce the debt than to tax the economy to death.
Morford is right in line with progressives like Naomi Klein, who thinks climate change is a grand opportunity to make war on capitalism. Despite doubts cast by other leftists, Klein insists that “responding to climate change could be the catalyst for a positive social and economic transformation”–by which she means government control of transportation, housing, and just about everything else.
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Not to worry, Mr. Morford. California AB32 (cap and tax), signed by meathead RINO Arnold in 2006, will raise gasoline prices in CA come January.
Backdoor tax on consumers by Sacramento in the vicinity of $800 billion dollars charged to petroleum producers to mitigate “global warming.” Guess who pays?
I couldn’t understand why the Dems didn’t pass that nationally in 2009/10.
When energy prices soared they could blame the evil oil companies and utilities.
For Califoria by itself, folks gonna look over the state line and figure out it’s really government getting the “windfall profits”.
Typical liberal Luddite that thinks cheap gas leads to more machinery.
And progressives think they are intelligent ?
Seems like someone used to regularly post Morford’s keyboard diarrhea here years ago, just for giggles. Figured he’d be dead from AIDS by now.
A left-coast writer named Mark Morford thinks that gas prices falling to $2 a gallon would be the worst thing to happen to America. After all, he says, the wrong people would profit: oil companies..., auto makers, and internet retailers like Amazon that offer free shipping... goes on to say... raise gas taxes by $6 a gallon and [fund] "alternative energy and transport, environmental protections, our busted educational system, our multi-trillion debt." ...Morford is right in line with progressives like Naomi Klein, who thinks climate change is a grand opportunity to make war on capitalism.
another article pointed out that gas stations make more with lower prices
Charles Krauthammer also thinks gas should be $6 a gallon artificially priced with government collecting the profit if it is lower than that.
It is a ridiculous idea.
I just drove I-85 into S. Carolina. 2.15 (Pilot, Loves, Kangaroo etc)
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