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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
[T]he taxes used to effectuate the ultimate goal of minimizing petroleum dependence needs to accomodate the overall desirability of cheap and easy transportation. In other words, it has to account for the possibility that we might inadvertently raise the overall cost of getting Person A from point B to point C.
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The theory behind this taxation is that the price of transportation doesn't reflect its real costs -- e.g., $200 billion to try to democratize Iraq to help ensure our supplies of oil in the future.
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To say that incenting the selection of fuel efficient replacement vehicles is bad policy tends to show that you don't live in the real world --- a brutal reality check that conservatives usually aren't usually accused of failing to take.
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No one said it's bad policy, but it's not as good as Burger's alternative.
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