On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 04:42 PM 3/3/2000 , Mark Newton wrote:
>
> >Our prices are held *up* by the fact that over 50% of them constitute
> >State and Federal taxes.
>
> Same in the US and Europe. Driving is a sin that must be taxed, y'know.
Driving is an activity that incurrs a cost on society, building roads,
regular maintainance, salter, snow plows, maintainace to fix the
damage the snow plows did, etc.
> This week, I traveled from Wyoming to California and discovered that
> gas prices were 25% higher in the Golden State than in the Cowboy
> State. Why? Because Californians "tax" themselves by requiring that
> everyone buy fuel with high concentrations of MTBE, an oxygenating agent.
> MTBE was supposed to reduce pollution, but in fact is a worse pollutant
> than oxides of nitrogen ever were. However, since only California
> refineries make gas with a high enough concentration of MTBE, Californians
> are locked into buying from these few sources and the price goes up.
> WAY up. Los Angeles will have $2.50 gas this summer.
Yet the number of f*cking SUVs and other gas-guzzling vehicles in the
region will continue to rise as will the miles driven per vehicle.
> It's the same the whole world over. Energy policies and fuel costs aren't
> driven by markets or even common sense. They are controlled by big
> cartels, big government, and politics.
Just like everything else.
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