California Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected this month to release a plan to combat global warming that recommends raising gas prices by around a penny per gallon. Conservative activists have already begun to complain about the idea, branding it a gas tax, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
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02/17, 4:21 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
That dude is an asshole. He doesn’t give a damn about global warming, he’s helping his oil buddies out.
02/17, 4:26 PM
posted by:
Mookie
So tell me again how taxing oil for local revenue helps oil companies?
02/17, 4:30 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
I don’t think its local, I think its a state tax allegedly geared at researching alternative fuels. They can collect millions of dollars, and pay a political contributor piles of cash to produce a report saying people should try running their cars on switchgrass or wood chips. Sound familiar?
02/17, 4:33 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
Hahaha, switchgrass, you think we’re that gullible. That’s a modern day “it wasn’t a UFO, it was swampgas”.
02/17, 6:55 PM
posted by:
shane
looks like he’s filling up an SUV… kinda ironic
02/17, 8:04 PM
posted by:
wake1
Imagine if gray” tax ‘em till their dead ” davis was still in there.
02/17, 10:50 PM
posted by:
nik
Heh – well, gas taxes sure seem to work in European countries (Germany, for example). It hardly helps the gas companies — in fact, it hurts them, as people buy cars with better gas milages. That, I think, would explain why conservatives are (generally) opposed to this one. Gas taxes encourage people to buy cars with better gas milages, in turn encouraging car compainies to come up with cars with better gas milages, and so on. Ironically, the only people hurt are the gas companies.
02/18, 12:30 AM
posted by:
Angelo
Increasing the price of gas will not reduce demand, it will only affect quantitative demand. We need something else to actually move the demand-curve, we need strong incentives to buy fuel-efficient vehicles (say a tax-defferement for very fuel efficient cars and a stronger guzzler tax for the lesser ones).
02/20, 2:09 PM
posted by:
HemiDakota
Maybe he should be taxed since he drives a Hummer….what an idiotic statement. Look…maybe we should sue Mother Nature since she pollutes more than 60-percent of the air.
04/25, 10:56 PM
posted by:
LeftLane_RightWing
It is time for California to live within its means. Eliminate the revenue vacuum created under the Davis administration and reduce government size. I am an advocate of social service cuts and government downsizing not new tax.
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02/17, 4:21 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
That dude is an asshole. He doesn’t give a damn about global warming, he’s helping his oil buddies out.
02/17, 4:26 PM
posted by:
Mookie
So tell me again how taxing oil for local revenue helps oil companies?
02/17, 4:30 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
I don’t think its local, I think its a state tax allegedly geared at researching alternative fuels. They can collect millions of dollars, and pay a political contributor piles of cash to produce a report saying people should try running their cars on switchgrass or wood chips. Sound familiar?
02/17, 4:33 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
Hahaha, switchgrass, you think we’re that gullible. That’s a modern day “it wasn’t a UFO, it was swampgas”.
02/17, 6:55 PM
posted by:
shane
looks like he’s filling up an SUV… kinda ironic
02/17, 8:04 PM
posted by:
wake1
Imagine if gray” tax ‘em till their dead ” davis was still in there.
02/17, 10:50 PM
posted by:
nik
Heh – well, gas taxes sure seem to work in European countries (Germany, for example). It hardly helps the gas companies — in fact, it hurts them, as people buy cars with better gas milages. That, I think, would explain why conservatives are (generally) opposed to this one. Gas taxes encourage people to buy cars with better gas milages, in turn encouraging car compainies to come up with cars with better gas milages, and so on. Ironically, the only people hurt are the gas companies.
02/18, 12:30 AM
posted by:
Angelo
Increasing the price of gas will not reduce demand, it will only affect quantitative demand. We need something else to actually move the demand-curve, we need strong incentives to buy fuel-efficient vehicles (say a tax-defferement for very fuel efficient cars and a stronger guzzler tax for the lesser ones).
02/20, 2:09 PM
posted by:
HemiDakota
Maybe he should be taxed since he drives a Hummer….what an idiotic statement. Look…maybe we should sue Mother Nature since she pollutes more than 60-percent of the air.
04/25, 10:56 PM
posted by:
LeftLane_RightWing
It is time for California to live within its means. Eliminate the revenue vacuum created under the Davis administration and reduce government size. I am an advocate of social service cuts and government downsizing not new tax.
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