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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You are more focused on shifting people from inefficient transport to efficient transport than you are with discouraging consumption (or ensuring that consumption falls to where it would be if the prices reflected the true costs). Arguably, we are subsidizing gasoline consumption -- including both people driving SUVs and people riding buses -- by covering some of the costs thereof through the DoD's budget, etc. If you increase the price of gas across the board, people who are price-sensitive will stop driving SUVs and start riding the bus -- efficient modes of transport will have more of a relative advantage.
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The point you two liberal intellectoids fail to get is that thanks to W's tax cuts, the economy is RED-hot and freedom loving patriots are happy to fork over a small portion of that extra cashola to roughride their 4x4s (and in my case an H2) over your leftwing socialist sensibilities in their efforts to get from here to there or wherever they want to go, rather than rubbing elbows with the marxist masses on the stupid bus or BART train or wherever you lefties would have us travelling. Hell, some of the staff people at my shop are avowed democrat partyers and the couple of them with IQs higher than a 60 watt-light bulb understand the fallacy of socialism better than the libs on this board when you start screeching for a 50 cent a gallon gas tax on gas to forcibly pervert the market and illegitimately induce conservation. I have to believe that the only bouyancy keeping JFKerry afloat is insanely diehard screwballs.
