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......who held interest in properties affected.
As if GWB, as an individual, was controlling oil prices. Seems to me the producers are controlling.
I won't make any sense but it will sound good.
I noticed a link on that site you posted on the left of the page about conserving gas.
Higher gas prices are call to conserve
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/164379_pumped.html
"Americans have learned a good deal about conserving. That's a good thing when gasoline prices are going higher and higher."
That's a crock full!! When I'm on the road it looks like 90 percent of the vehicles are either huge trucks or SUVs. What's with the love Americans have for these huge gas guzzling vehicles? I have a friend that runs to town for something or other a couple of times a day and she drives a Ford Explorer. I think it gets about 8 miles to the gallon. True what people drive is their business but what they drive is drinking up the gasoline faster than it can be made and making the prices go up. And that becomes my business!
Hi, Rosalie.
When we were in oz two years ago, we didn't see a single SUV, and very few pickup trucks. What we did see was lots and lots of much more energy-efficient station wagons -- but very few of those are even available in this country.
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I wonder if they been higher for a while. Not in absolute terms of dollars, converted to US$, but in terms of percentage of an hours average wage say.
I don't know. We in the US have spent a much smaller percentage of our income for gas and oil than many countries for decades. Most have taxes equal to or more than the cost of the gas as I understand it.
I know that totally unchained capitalism can get out of hand, but cars are so obviously built as to what will sell, it's the public demand only you can blame for what's available.
Unless you believe that the average joe is so brain controlled that he does what TPTB wish him to do.
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Hi, Roger.
of course the gas price was higher -- over $4 per gallon. its higher in just about every other major country than ours. That's one reason why we use the majority of the world's energy, and release the majority of the world's greenhouse gasses. How's this for a suggestion (which Republicans will of course hate). That's also one way in which they provide social services that we don't -- the high gas taxes help pay for univeral medical care etc., and give a major incentive for buying more energy-efficient cars.
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I doubt it's just Republicans who will boo you for suggesting we double or triple gasoline taxes.
And I've said for years that the only bad thing that would happen from a gradual increase in gasoline taxes would be the burden on low income people. And that particularly applies to those working multiple part time jobs. They have to get to sometimes widely separated sites multiple times a day while struggling to make it. Higher gas prices will make taking a part time job to supplement a full time one less worthwhile. It'll even make taking part time work instead of government aid not to work less worthwhile.
But higher operating costs would be the only fair way perhaps to discourage low mileage vehicles. After all, why should I have to pay any penality if I have a huge vehicle I seldom use just like someone driving the same every day?
The working poor will be hurt the most by higher gas prices, whether from supply and demand or from taxes.
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It is meant to encourage people to buy smaller cars with a much higher miles per gallon.
I honestly do not know how effective this has been.
Our license tags, which is similiar to what you're discussing I guess, are based on weight I think, and use.
But passenger cars for private use are all the same as far as I know, other than fees for personalized tags.
The weight comes in with trucks, trailers, and I don't know what else.
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