50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas.

[AFA]

The fed tax is supposed to go up 47 cents over the next 5 years.

 

[Friday on my mind]

the majority of people say they want to help the environment. the majority of men want a bigger dick. isn't wishful thinking great?

Yep its like people who would like to lose weight but refuse to eat less.

 

[KungFuDude]

Being taxed by '50 Cent' is no joke, son.

 

[Becks...poamr]

I'd vote just to get those damned SUV's off the road.

Yep. Unless, for some reason, it was actually NECESSARY to have an SUV.

 

[squallumz]

Or we can stop allowing for gas guzzling cars like Hummers and stuff to be sold.

oh i know! i had a hit thread here on those fucking things not so long ago.

 

[Blink]

If the US goverment really, really wants to cut down America's use of fuel they need to come up with alternatives. Either affordable alternate fuel or put decent public transportation in place. All adding more taxes ontop of the existing taxes will do is make people work even more to be able to continue getting to work.

Autos that use alternative fuels are already available. The problem is getting people to buy them. If my experience last month at a Toyota dealership is any indication, then people are being actively dissuaded from buying petroleum/electric hybrids at least due to their higher cost up front. I'm not sure about flex-fuel vehicles, but the same thing might apply with those.

Post-Bush, we might see some government incentives to move away from gasoline. If there's any money left to spend.

 

[D-rock]

I like how that article never mentions where that money would be going. Would it go to maintain roads and find viable alternative energy sources or would it just go into somebody's pet project or to lower taxes even more for businesses and the rich? If it's just to discourage people from buying gas and nothing else that doesn't seem like a very good use for it. Something like that would be extremely good planning.

Also I liked to know what they would plan to do with the masses of poor people out there that don't have access to any public transportation and are almost forced to use their car all the time. It would be even worse when the fact almost every necessity they need to buy would be that much more expensive due to shipping cost. They would be really getting screwed over by being forced to spend more money that they can ill afford to do.

 

[marquis2]

It is not fair to Europe's rate of oil consumption to that of the U.S. because Europe is much more densely populated than the U.S. People living closer together means that there is shorter distances to travel which means that there is less oil needed to travel those shorter distances.

Europe uses less oil mainly because the vehicles are smaller ; the average annual mileage per driver is only slightly less than in the US.Americans are surprised that UK annual mileages aren't far short of theirs although it's a smaller country by far.The reasons include the fact that most driving in any case is local but in these islands distances aren't so large that they put people off driving them.I live in central England ; the coast is 2 hours away, the hills are an hour and a half away, London 2 hours, Scotland 4 hours. No sweat so we do it.We don't on the whole fly between cities or to the coast unlike residents of large countries.

 

[JohnnyThompson]

Europe uses less oil mainly because the vehicles are smaller ; the average annual mileage per driver is only slightly less than in the US.Americans are surprised that UK annual mileages aren't far short of theirs although it's a smaller country by far.The reasons include the fact that most driving in any case is local but in these islands distances aren't so large that they put people off driving them.I live in central England ; the coast is 2 hours away, the hills are an hour and a half away, London 2 hours, Scotland 4 hours. No sweat so we do it.We don't on the whole fly between cities or to the coast unlike residents of large countries.

that's just one part of the equation. what about trains, airplanes, trucks? Those modes of transportation also require the use of oil. I do not have the stats in front of me but I would hypothesize that population density plays a bigger factor than the difference in the size of cars.

 

[marquis2]

that's just one part of the equation. what about trains, airplanes, trucks? Those modes of transportation also require the use of oil. I do not have the stats in front of me but I would hypothesize that population density plays a bigger factor than the difference in the size of cars.

Continental Europe is quite a big place too you know!I'm not sure how population density fits in but it can work both ways.If you have lots of friends/relatives not too far away you'll tend to visit them more frequently , the same applies to business contacts.If they are a long way off you'll phone them instead.

 

[jakeri]

someone spoke about big gas prices maybe you should visit europe first and then speak. Here one liter costs 1.4 euros which is 2.16 dollars on this days rating and liter is 1/3 gallon and this is only because usa:n's have allmost free gas and usa controls allmost all oil fields by war or other ways. sounds fair doesn't it ? so that's why we europeans use less gas (and offcourse for example my renault megane with 130hp 1.6 engine uses only 6liters per 100km (~10liters per 100miles) and average usa'n car with 100hp 3liter engine uses more than 12liters per 100kilometers)

 

[jakeri]

and atleast in my country (finland) people dont live very near each other (17,4peoples / km²) and in whole usa 30,8peoples / km² so we live in much bigger distances than average usan's. So that's not why europeans use less gas it's just cause we use better designed cars with higher efficiency and we cant afford that much gas even we have bit bigger average incomes than average usa'n