Former GM Vice Chairman: ‘I Would Raise the Fuel Tax 25 Cents a Gallon per Year’ (Lutz)

CNSNews ^ | April 17, 2012 | Patrick Burke

[jazusamo]

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[Peter from Rutland]

This guy is getting added to my “if I get cancer...” list.

[richardtavor]

I would like to seriously beat the holy shit out of this asshole....first, he steals billions from us taxpayers, and then he has the gall to call for more taxes on us. He needs to be charged a100% a stupidity charge..

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Before I comment, I want to remind everyone how expensive flammable materials are (as I don't have a flame suit handy).

Lutz is right -- or he's at least less wrong than Washington policy makers. If the objective is to reduce fossil fuel use in automobiles; then raising gas taxes is the least bad way to go about it. The COFE regulations are probably the worst -- and subsidies for alternative fuels (including EVs) are a close second for worst "solution". ("Solution" is in scare quotes, because you need an actual problem, before you have a solution.) Using every government power available to thwart development of domestic energy sources is a whole other category of very bad "solutions".

[Gay State Conservative]

“If I were emperor of the United States, I would raise the fuel tax in the United States by 25 cents a gallon per year...”

If you were Emporer of the US,Bob,I do my damnedest to see to it that you never.....well,you know!

[Gay State Conservative]

“If I were emperor of the United States, I would raise the fuel tax in the United States by 25 cents a gallon per year...”

If you were Emperor of the US,Bob,I do my damnedest to see to it that you never.....well,you know!

[tell me]

The objective is to line the pockets of electric car investors with US taxpayer dollars so they can turn around and send it back to their cronies in DC in the form of campaign contributions.

[Teotwawki]

I wonder how many of us there are who have an “if I get cancer list.”

[taterjay]

If I were emperor, I would tell the Vice Chairmen of car companies they could only have 1 penny per vehicle sold during the year. Whatever percent sales increased the next year would be the percentage less than a penny they would receive. Two can play this game.

[SaraJohnson]

Higher taxes won’t stop the radicals from limiting the availability of energy supplies.

[eclecticEel]

What else to expect from a spokesman for Government Motors? Personally, I love the way he describes punitive taxation as ‘voluntary’ activity.

[devolve]

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Lutz is a NAZI

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[PGalt]

I wonder how many of us there are who have an “if I get cancer list.”

Mine's, "If the SHTF" list.

GREAT thread! Thanks to all posters.

[Charles Martel]

I want to see what Lutz drives. I bet it’s not a Volt.

Yes, I suspect you may be correct.

[RexBeach]

This chap should be given a one way bus ticket to Crazytown.

Apparently, Mr. Lutz cannot count either(see my tagline).

[lurk]

Sometimes dumb and evil come together in the same package.

[Little Ray]

Since those people in Washington don’t have any business deciding how we power our transportation, he’s wrong and so are you.

[Sequoyah101]

Former GM Vice Chairman: ‘I Would Raise the Fuel Tax 25 Cents a Gallon per Year’ (Lutz) [said as he cashed in more GM shares, fueled his jet trainer and zoomed away.

I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again today... Lutz is a WHORE who sold his principles a long, long time ago.

His very prosperous future is closely tied to GM and GM is very closely tied to obastard.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"he’s wrong and so are you."

Please reread what I wrote. Also please look up the concept of "least bad solution". I wasn't saying that gas taxes should go up. I was saying that that "solution" (and I included the scare quotes) is "less bad" than the "solutions" that the government is actually imposing.

The "best" solution (as opposed to the "least bad" solution) would be for the government to get out of the way of free markets.

Lutz is simply pointing out to his pals in government that there are other ways to achieve their purported goals. Of course, if the real objective is what tell me says in post 27; then the government methods are pretty good (just the objective is evil). (BTW, I happen to lean toward tell me's view on this.)

[wjcsux]

The "best" solution (as opposed to the "least bad" solution) would be for the government to get out of the way of free markets.
WRONG BUCKO! The best solution is to have Government leave us the f*ck alone! We, the American people can handle the economy through free markets!