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
And all based on global warming junk science.
I pray Obama will do this. During a depression, no less.
The socialist Dems will be out of power for a solid decade. People vote their pockebooks. All you would have to do is remind liberals that the Democrats gave us $7/gallon gas. That would be it. Instant Republican domination.
Please, please, please do this Obama. Please.
What do you expect from a Government that displays such acute business acumen as to not be able to run the "Mustang Ranch" (Bar/Bordello) at a profit?
We are in big trouble if the people who replace them don't have a plan ready to go to straighten this mess out.
They had best better be working on it and prioritizing the bills they want to pass now.
The sad part is that they will only rescind three dollar's worth of damage for every five the Dems stuff through, instead of take things back the other way harder. Then they will tell us how well they did. I hope they remember 2006.
it won’t come off. they’ll just transfer it to their bicycle like a good comrade.
“There are times I am tempted to turn my diploma toward the wall, lest anyone think me a fool.”
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the only ed is self-ed...the other is indoctrination/high price gub work permit head of employment sheeple line...
Semper Trvth!
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The link doesn’t work, and MND doesn’t have an archive search that I can find.
I see a lot of references on the internet to this story, but no such story exists in MND. At least none that I can find. I’m also stunned that there appears to be no way to search the site for older stories.
Still looking though...
Hmmm...
Sometimes ya gotta try The Wayback Machine archives for these pieces that just “disappear”!!!!!!!!!!
;)
Semper Suspicious!
Gunny G
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Thanks. And that got me to the original piece:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/
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