I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Supertax!
o noes - 20 second rule!
yes, we need a gas tax so there is enough money in the budget to give the oil companies their swag.
You gotta see the latest DarkBlack photoshop.
It's true, and gas prices can be held at a level which discourages needless driving.
don't tax my gas!
Unfortunately, the gas taxes now mostly go for... more roads. ~!~
Last increase in the federal gas tax was 1993.
We've had a few bridges fail since then.
I won't be holding my breath, however.
Doing the sensible thing is not what they do in DC.
I'm guessing Canadia already taxes the dickens out of your gas.
I've received 2 grants for commuter trail projects out of this gas tax program:
http://www.civicnet.bc.ca/siteen....asp?
PageID=294
I'm guessing Canadia already taxes the dickens out of your gas.
plantsman | 12.27.08 - 1:02 pm | #
actually, dickens was outlawed as an additive several years ago. there was evidence it was creating a breed poor orphans who preyed on wealthy pockets.
I'm guessing Canadia already taxes the dickens out of your gas.
plantsman
average is 32%
10% federal
BTW, I noticed earlier that, now that the oil bubble has burst, Big Oil is trotting out that "problems at the refineries" bullshit to justify price increases again...
Maybe a surcharge should be add to Mexican food as well. And eggs.
Stupid Highway Trust Fund - gas taxes can only be used to buy toxic waste from oil refineries which is better known as asphalt.
actually, dickens was outlawed as an additive several years ago. there was evidence it was creating a breed poor orphans who preyed on wealthy pockets.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
But you have to admit his creation of exquisite last names would enhance any rap sheet...
Ali,
Why ow?
Maybe a surcharge should be add to Mexican food as well. And eggs.
bo | 12.27.08 - 1:04 pm | #
form 107-B: beano credit
Good afternoon. I'd rather fly...
I won't be holding my breath, however.
You'll turn blue.
form 107-B: beano credit
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Alternate fuel source?
Why would a cat feel bad because their ape servant has an opposable thumb?
Anthony McCarthy
The fact that they need to pander to the emotional needs of their ape servants in order to access said opposable thumbs interfers with their plans for world domination.
Bo,
fell on a rock and my knee swelled up like a grapefruit. I should probably change my nym, it's not so bad now.
If the Fed tax on gasoline had been increased in the late 90's as I suggested (two cents a gallon every month for 50 months, eventually settling at an extra dollar), the funds would be there to plan, acquire land for, and begin construction on a very high speed train system on the eastern seaboard.
The key will be to ensure that the system runs is laid out to be efficient, that is to have very few stations in major cities, and NONE outside of them (modeling the TGV).
Every congressman will want to have something in their district, especially ones through which the VHS train passes. Just saying no will be difficult, but necessary.
If you've got it, a train (or truck) had something to do with it.
I make it a point to breathe myself. No percentages in holding it.
Screw the East Coast; it's not the only region that needs transit.
I got nothing.
Blah.
ow
If you've got it, a train (or truck) had something to do with it.
Lime Rickey | 12.27.08 - 1:07 pm | #
pffft!
although i do dream of it going through a tunnel sometimes.
I got nothing.
you've got me.
What are the odds that Reid won't get any money for anybody next year except Halliburton, Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs?
form 107-B: beano credit
dirk gently, sociopathetic
My first husband would have had to corner the market on those. He gave whole meaning to the term SBD.
I got nothing.
Blah.
Vicki, profoundly pissed off
You have my undying admiration.
You've got friends, Vicki.
Cue up Republicans who borrowed $5 trillion for Bush's war crimes to start crying about fiscal responsibility.
ellroon with shoes | Homepage | 12.27.08 - 1:00 pm
Great photoshop. That should be the cover for his book.
did someone throw a shoe?
transit shoes
Don't know if the end result was Beano, but when I was at UC Berkeley, my advisor set me up with an idependent study project at the USDA lab in Albany. Seems to have been a bit of confusion on their end, because when I went over there the first time, they practically rolled out the red carpet. Escorted into to meet the lab director and the chief food scientist. (Jesus, all this hoopla for an undergrad doing one unit of IS?)
The spent a good 10 minutes outlining their plan for research into degassifying beans, and asked how much progress I might make in two years. Seems they thought they were getting a post doc.
A constant gas tax will exacerbate the harmful effects of a price spike like the recent one or those of the 70's. A gas tax would have to have variable rates, and aim for a more constant price at the pump.
skeptonomist:
Why would the tax have to be linked to price fluctuations? I could argue that now is the time to increase it 50 cents or more a gallon in one fell swoop, since the price has fallen by almost 60% in the last six months.
A steady increase in the tax would not be perceptible to nearly most consumers, and that is the point.
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