Traders having made their bundle, oil drops 9% in 4 days, dollar rebounds a little

[Mac1337]

$tevie wrote:
This "I will tell you what you think and then refute the crap I just made up" is one of the big reasons people jump all over your case, Dakota. So you can stop pretending it's "us". It's you.

The thought of you jumping all over me is most nightmarish. Please make sure I am blind folded and keep hanging skin off my face.

[Grace62]

Dakota wrote:

You are dancing around the issue. You had no answers to my two main points,

-In spite decades longe exorbitant tax on gas, not new technology came out of Europe. All they did was to retrench and live with less.

We did this thread 7 months and most people disagreed with you
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1013832

- Gas tax collected by the government will be put to whatever use they want. Look what they do with social security taxes they collect.

Who is "they?" Are you familiar with representative democracy?

Both prove that expensive gasoline either by taxation or otherwise is no guarantee to get alternatives. If anything, it dries up investment funds. There is plenty of money around. If someone had a workable solution people would pour money into it.
Gov't policies in our country have done a lot to block the development of alternative fuels, to increase mileage standards on cars, etc. Weakening pro-environmental protection voices is big business and attacks more lobbying dollars than just about any other activity. Different policies could make a difference, we just haven't tried very hard.

[Grace62]

Dakota wrote:


The thought of

Please stop.

[Mac1337]

Grace heading for tall grass again.

[Black]

Dakjacked.

[Black]

Grace62 wrote:
I would favor higher taxes on gasoline at all levels of production and at the retail level, with the money used to help clean up the air, public transportation, and alternative fuel development, if that's what you mean. That's a fairly common idea that gets tossed around a lot.

A friend sat in on a state DOT meeting through her role as an advocacy org ED; the discussion centered around how to encourage people to drive more.
It seems that gas taxes were put in place that would provide revenues to infrastructure improvements, and driving was down resulting in budget shortfalls.
The gas tax idea seems good on the surface but can apparently have some unintended consequences.

[mattkime]

yes, we all know how the states have been pushing smoking since the high cigarette taxes went into place