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Burger's point is that if you want to discourage the consumption of gas, tax gas. AG's is that you can also tax vehicles that consume gas. Both seem right, except that the latter is less comprehensive (because things other than new cars consume gas). Neither is particularly utopian, but neither is likely to happen as long as politicians care about being re-elected. The fact that some conservatives are now talking about taxing gas, however, would seem to be a fairly strong indicator that this Iraq thing isn't working out, and so people are looking for ways to disengage.
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