Federal gas tax to increase $2.40/gallon?

IHateTheMedia.com ^ | 02/03/09

[ArrogantBustard]

He’d more likely either starve to death or be killed in the “food riots” ... How long would New York last with the trucking and rail industries destroyed?

[OneWingedShark]

Would we have to stop with just mass protests? Could we not ramp it up a notch and get rid of some liberalpolitical dead wood?

Fixed.

[JSDude1]

Oh no you don’t them’s “fightin words” Mr. Friedman!

[thackney]

Now I'm confused, this article says Shell did have a loss.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6244756.html

Shell's statement seems to say differently.

Any accountants here want to interpret Shell's results?

[The Great RJ]

While this tax boost is not very likely, gasoline prices will be driven up by carbon taxes, windfall profits taxes on oil companies and the lack of US production that will reduce supplies. $4 per gallon gasoline is almost a certainty before the end of Obama’s first term.

[Neidermeyer]

Well, one thing we know,

democRats will figure out a way that THEY won’t have to pay this tax.
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The RATS in NYC love the gas tax because...

1.) The mafia runs the gas stations and they simply pocket what should be collected in taxes..

2.) New York gets far more from the fed gov’t in subsidies for roadbuilding and cash injections into mass transit than they pay in ... a subway ride would be $9 or so instead of $2.50 if you and me weren’t getting fleeced for their behalf.

[puppypusher]

What Is this Nut Friedman Crazy?American families are under financial stress now with gas being as cheap as it is.People are going to start retrenching financially and staying home.

I foresee a lot of theaters and Dining establishments going out of business and soon.

[TASMANIANRED]

So “journalists” think they are entitled to write legislation now?

[Repeal The 17th]

“We’ve got to work very very hard to counteract
this in 2010. Conservatives unite!”
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Or will we will just continue to nit-pick each other to death?
I just can not support (fill in the blank)
because he/she is a (fill in the blank)
and they believe in (fill in the blank)
and they aren’t strong enough on (fill in the blank)
and one time they said (fill in the blank)
and they posed for a picture with (fill in the blank)
and seveal years ago they voted for (fill in the blank).
Unless Ronald Reagan is resurrected and announces his candidacy,
I feel we are way too splintered to ever get our act together.
The “other side” seeks out commonalities and builds coalitions;
while we focus on our differences and isolate one another.

[Tenacious 1]

I thought that BP and Shell were somehow related. ???

[RayChuang88]

Is Friedman nuts? Even President Obama wouldn’t be dumb enough to slap on such a ridiculous tax immediately—he would end up facing a Republican majority in both houses of Congress come January 2011 if that happens!