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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: dizzydizzy Date: Sep 18, 2008 18:16
Marc Gerges wrote:
>It's rather simple, european governments have not instituted any
>CAFE-like standards, but found another way of directing the market where
>they want it to be - 8US$ per gallon, 5 of which are taxes.
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>I always find it noticeable when I fill up on both sides of the
>atlantic, I pay a similar amount for a similar distance driven. It's
>just the car on the left side has about twice the size of fuel tank than
>the one on the right.
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>But heavy taxes on fuel have a bunch of disadvantages that make them
>intolerable to the US, like free health care etc.
The Rebugs in my state had a fucking shit-fit because the dems (and a
few honorable Republicans) over-rode the shitheaded governor's veto of
a bill to raise the gas tax SIX CENTS to help build roads.
SIX CENTS. Compared to the DOLLAR or so fluctuations going to Enron
et al.
Then the pieces of SHIT had the gall to run ads blaming the high gas
prices on the democrats, when, IN FACT, only TWO CENTS of the new tax
had been phased-in at the time of the ads!
Right-wingers are lying SHIT.
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