10-01-2010, 08:46 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Dak.. uh.. you DO realize that vehicle transportation is the most highly tax subsidized form of personal and freight transportation in the USA, right ? If you do the math from fuel exploration, production, distribution, roads, vehicle manufacturing, etc... I think you'll find that it works out that way.
While I disagree with Grace's proposal of changing behaviors through exceptional taxation, you do have to understand the overall economics of vehicles.
And Grace... I disagree with the proposal simply because the US grew up post WWII around the road and the automobile, and the infrastructure for any other method no longer exists. And we continue to build up our roads and ignore rails, etc... So we're stuck with roads. Hence the fuel efficiency standards. Which .. help...
I did not advocate higher taxes, did I?
I advocate ending the extreme corporate welfare of exceptional tax breaks and subsidization of this industry. Let them sink or swim on the open market, see what that does to prices.