What We Really Need Is A Gas Bag Holiday
As Ridley asks in Aliens, "Did IQs suddenly drop while I was lost in space?" A propos of a "gas tax holiday" proposed in the Senate yesterday, David Stout reports,
The $100 rebate seemed to be the centerpiece of the plan laid out today. "It will show people that Washington gets it," said Senator Jim Talent of Missouri, "and that it's time to provide some relief to Americans, to Missourians who are trying to support their families and are paying these very high gasoline prices."
Wow, a hundred dollars. I'm impressed. I'm sure that low-income drivers will be thrilled. That's - what? - two tanksfull at best for the average small car. What a real fix!
The current regime (all three branches) is so utterly incapable of thinking about our fuel problem that I can only count on their making it so much worse that Americans begin thinking about it for themselves. Personally, I vote for a windfall profits tax.
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I'm with you on the windfall profits tax.
But don't count on it: everyone in this Administration is oil-related.
In England last March ('05) we stopped for petrol and I filled my friend's gas tank, and for over L50, or about $100, it was just about full. And this in a country with the huge North Sea reserves...
With NASCAR somehow on tv constantly, (I laugh when friends complain about watching golf--NASCAR is 100 times more boring) and our dependence on the auto industry to provide jobs for the economy, the US's obsession with cars seems unlikely to abate soon.
We need leadership but that is in short supply on both sides of the aisle.
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April 28, 2006 08:11 AM
On this issue, I'm almost as disgusted with the Democrats' grandstanding about fuel prices. While I think that the big oil companies are guilty of many nefarious deeds, the fact that petroleum is a depleting non-renewable resource is not one of them.
See theoildrum.com for rage that is much better informed than my rage.
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April 28, 2006 09:20 AM