Posted on 01/15/2008 2:56:00 PM PST by BradtotheBone
BTW, Americans currently use about 320 billion gallons of petro per year. That comes out to a 128 billion dollar tax increase per year on Americas producers or a 1 trillion 128 billion taxe increase on the low side for the decade after the tax is enacted.
Nice stimulus package!
We are in a political twilight zone, with no sign post up ahead.
If this goes through, There will be a lot of DC strretlights with VERRRRRRRY interesting things hangin from them.
In Cal, we’re busy trying to make carpool lanes, toll lanes. We pay a high gas tax and then the state puts the money into the general fund. So when we need transportation money, we just convert lanes to tolls. No problem.
It gets talked about, but it does not happen.
I urge a personal $40,000,0000 “tax” on every member of this Federal Panel.
Mass transit doesn’t work. Stop throwing money at it.
A report today exposed the bridge failure as a defect in the DESIGN of the bridge, not because of inadequate maintenance or insufficient funds for maintenance.
The socialists are running full tilt to make driving a private vehicle unaffordable while raping our wallets to pay for more useless rail projects. The mandated increase in CAFE fuel standards will be accomplished by making vehicles smaller and lighter. That will lead to INCREASED fatalities based on previous experience. That is completely opposite to the objective of lower fatalities sought in the article's recommendations. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
GM reports the new CAFE standards will raise the cost of vehicles a minimum of $6,000. Flex fuels like ethanol REDUCE mileage. Again, the left hand isn't paying attention to the right hand.
Anyone who is setting a mileage goal ten years out, is merely managing the status quo. If they were serious about alternatives, mileage standards would be a moot issue.
Now where did I park my mule!
Ummm, shouldn’t mass transit be provided BEFORE the huge tax increase to force people to want to use the non-existent mass transit?
I didn’t vote for that bastard,and when gas goes up you are gonna hear me bitch.Load and clear.Then I will start to inflict political damage on those responsible.
BTTT
If Fred Thompson said during a national debate that electricity rates in our country are artificially low and that we should be paying $14 per Killowatt hour and half the country voted for him, don't you think utility companies would incorporate his point into their future pricing structure plans?
Any “poor sucker” who buys gasoline, diesel, or any other motor fuel already automatically pays a fuel tax that at least theoretically goes toward the construction and maintenance of highways and other roads. Motor vehicles generally do use those roads as rarely as they buy gasoline and thereby pay fuel taxes. (Most legislatures frequently pilfer the road maintenance fund for non-road spending and then complain of a lack of money to construct and maintain roads.) Perhaps “every poor sucker” nowadays only buys gasoline for non-road motors like lawn mowers, but in my experience, an overwhelming majority of gasoline purchases historically went toward on-road motor vehicle fuels.
It is no victory. It is the fad du jour. There isn't enough arable land on the planet to plant enough corn to make even a minor dent in the energy needs of the United States. The use of corn or other foodstuffs as fuel for transportation is driving up the cost of food in the U.S. and especially in 3rd world countries dependent on corn as a staple food. Farmers currently see a hot cash crop in corn for ethanol. The automakers see a chance to market a vehicle that burns "alternative fuel" to the clueless left wing environmentalists. A few hucksters (some of my co-workers included) see a way to make a fast buck standing up ethanol plants. The plants that can process non-food biomass e.g. switchgrass have some merit, but they will still never amount to a significant fraction of the energy needs in the U.S.
The habit of pilfering gasoline and diesel fuel tax for social programs and railroad programs is inexcusable. There is no need to raise the tax...just quit stealing it for illegitimate purposes.
That would eliminate what...half of this "commission's" staff & enablers, and hangers-on?
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