Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/02/2010 7:13:32 PM PST by Bigtigermike
To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.
To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs........
The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Damn straight its why. In France, a whopping 70% of the price of gas is taxes.
On average, europeans pay over 2xs higher gas prices than US drivers do. Their governments claim its to reduce the amount of energy consumption, buts its just a big part of how they bankroll their failing socialist utopias. On top of that, they’ve instituted a cap and trade program which since its inception has only raised the prices of energy, while Co2 output has actually not decreased, but increased. Awesome job there Europe.
And the usual suspects are pushing for it here as well.
Listen no further than the comments from that idiot limousine liberal, Diane Sawyer
Talking to Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, about Obama’s plans for increased fuel standards, she began, “Why not just go to a gas tax, for instance, which would accomplish a reduction in the use of gasoline, dependence on foreign oil right away?”
“If you really want to change the fuel patterns of this country, and if you want to reduce dependence on foreign oil, not by 2015 or 2016, but right now, there is one way to do it. It’s the way Europe has been doing it. And that is a gasoline tax.”
Sawyer would proceed to ask variations on this question six times.
Get a rope. Time to start stringin’em up.
Well, that's the idea with these taxes. One of the long-term goals is to force people to move into the cities.
Urban voters tend to vote exclusively Democrat, so if everyone lived in the city, the country would become a virtual one-party state.
I believe gasoline is almost three times higher. In Germany, energy is three times the cost here. Germany is the Democrat model. They want us to behave like Germans.
I hear lefties whine all the time about energy. They insist that we would have well developed alternative energy sources if we had thrown huge subsidies at alternative energy and substantially increased gas taxes in 1980s. Their assertion is strongly contradicted by the European experience. Europe has not found petroleum substitutes although their usage of diesel vehicles looks promising. However, the left has blocked diesel vehicles here. France has a major committment to nuclear power, another forbidden energy source of the left.
Europe is a good model for bad energy policy. The Democrats however want to take the worst of European energy policies and make the policies even worse here. I see an energy meltdown here. The Democrats are forcing energy boondoggles (ethanol, renewables, electric vehicles, residential solar, ...) and restricting economically viable energy production. The environmental left can and will stop new power plants.
At $7 a gallon, gas will be too expensive to use for driving, and will have to be saved for use in Molotov cocktails.
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Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say ($7 dollars
to Meets Obama’s emission cuts!)
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Funny, the profs at UCLA (with only a few decent exceptions)...
never abandoned their drive-to/from-work automobiles.
(And their precious parking spaces on campus.
I’ll pitch in $100 to put him on a slow boat back to Kenya or Indonesia with Wide Load and the girls.
Is tar and feathering still a misdemeanor?
Harvard researchers need to be shipped one-way to North Korea to enjoy the fruits of a leftist utopia.
Diesel works a lot better than gas for live cremations. It sticks tighter and burns hotter.
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