[rageaholic]

Actually this is a tax I wouldn't mind paying. Knowing that a few pennies go to some Arabs every time I tank up pisses me off.

Knowing that a couple of bucks went to buy bullets to put in their heads would really cheer me up. I'm for it.

[rageaholic]

Yep, everybody wants the short term high of seeing American tanks roll through Bagdad, but nobody wants to pay for it. Makes no difference who gets elected, with Bush you'll all be paying for it in the future, with Kerry, you'll all be paying for it tomorrow. Like Powell said, "we broke it, we bought it." Whatever.

[tahiti]

Mr. Sullivan states: "...help wean Americans off the oil that requires the U.S. to be so intimately involved in that wonderful cesspool of rival hatreds, the Middle East."

Rageaholic states: "Actually this is a tax I wouldn't mind paying. Knowing that a few pennies go to some Arabs every time I tank up pisses me off."

We can accomplish the goal of cutting off a revenue source to the Middle East without raising gas taxes one penny.

Drill for oil in Alaska to replace the same amount of oil we currently purchase from the Arabs. It is that simple.