Gas here just went to $3.69...
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Does anyone know the "real reason" why we are paying so much.
Jesus Fuking Christ enough is enough. Time to get
going on the electric Cars.
Jesus Fuking Christ enough is enough. Time to get
going on the electric Cars.
Jeesh, you guys, it is $3.75 here for unleaded....
We have some of the highest gas taxes in the nation, along with ozone restrictions, requiring specially formulated gas...
All because we live too close to Gary and the winds drive the gases up from there and Chicago.
We'll be over $4.00 a gallon by Memorial Day from what they are telling us....
We have some of the highest gas taxes in the nation, along with ozone restrictions, requiring specially formulated gas...
All because we live too close to Gary and the winds drive the gases up from there and Chicago.
We'll be over $4.00 a gallon by Memorial Day from what they are telling us....
And even in the case of gas grief . . . Agent wins once again.
If I didn't get most of my gas paid for, I might think of buying a car that didn't get 15 mpg
If I didn't get most of my gas paid for, I might think of buying a car that didn't get 15 mpg
Onl 4.3 cents of it Jack--fortunately there was GOP congress that didn't go for the 50 cent increase he and gore wanted.
However the Dems are beating same drum again on taxing gas--and no congress to save us this time.
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"Because of the thorny politics of raising taxes, the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gas levy hasn't changed since Oct. 1, 1993. And few policy experts expect a higher tax soon.
"We know the broad contours of some things that have to happen," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations. "You have to price oil on a permanent basis to provide incentives to shift away from it. It's the key issue -- and the hardest one to make progress on."
Leon E. Panetta, a former congressman and President Bill Clinton's first budget director, sees things the same way.
"I don't think there's any question that as a matter of policy it makes a lot of sense to move in that direction," he said. "But politically it's a very high hurdle to get over."
Panetta knows from experience. When Clinton took office, Vice President Al Gore argued for a big gas-tax increase to promote conservation, and many administration members agreed, Panetta recalled. But, he said, "there were also those like Treasury Secretary [Lloyd] Bentsen who said, 'Are you out of your mind?' "
By the time Congress was done, what started out as a 50-cent-a-gallon proposal ended up as a 4.3-cent-a-gallon increase. Since then, just to keep up with inflation, the tax would have had to rise 6 cents, but it hasn't budged.
However the Dems are beating same drum again on taxing gas--and no congress to save us this time.
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"Because of the thorny politics of raising taxes, the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gas levy hasn't changed since Oct. 1, 1993. And few policy experts expect a higher tax soon.
"We know the broad contours of some things that have to happen," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations. "You have to price oil on a permanent basis to provide incentives to shift away from it. It's the key issue -- and the hardest one to make progress on."
Leon E. Panetta, a former congressman and President Bill Clinton's first budget director, sees things the same way.
"I don't think there's any question that as a matter of policy it makes a lot of sense to move in that direction," he said. "But politically it's a very high hurdle to get over."
Panetta knows from experience. When Clinton took office, Vice President Al Gore argued for a big gas-tax increase to promote conservation, and many administration members agreed, Panetta recalled. But, he said, "there were also those like Treasury Secretary [Lloyd] Bentsen who said, 'Are you out of your mind?' "
By the time Congress was done, what started out as a 50-cent-a-gallon proposal ended up as a 4.3-cent-a-gallon increase. Since then, just to keep up with inflation, the tax would have had to rise 6 cents, but it hasn't budged.
Well lets see...
Can't drill offshore in California or Florida
Can't drill in Anwar.
Lots of the low sulfur fuel now used is refined offshore.
How many new refineries are being built?
Both senate and house are controlled by dems.
Can't drill offshore in California or Florida
Can't drill in Anwar.
Lots of the low sulfur fuel now used is refined offshore.
How many new refineries are being built?
Both senate and house are controlled by dems.
