[newgeezer]

Gee, gas too expensive? I know how to reduce the price by a nationwide average of 42%...

That's not 42%, it's 42¢/gallon (about 16%).

At any rate, I too would like to know how you plan to build and maintain roads if you eliminate all gas taxes.

Plus, when you stop to consider such a move would surely increase demand, it can hardly be called a solution to the problem. In that regard, it would actually be worse than a Nixonian price freeze.

[HostileTerritory]

Plus, when you stop to consider such a move would surely increase demand, it can hardly be called a solution to the problem.

That is an excellent point overlooked by money. We cut gas taxes, consumption goes up, but Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are already pumping all they can, so the price goes back up. We stop paying for our infrastructure and spend even more on Hugo Chavez's highways in Caracas. Smart plan.

I want whatever share of my gas taxes is going to build a suspension bridge to an island with 50 people on it in Alaska, but the rest of it goes to maintain our infrastructure.