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lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts) Sat Dec 20, 2014, 02:35 PM Dec 2014

Now is the time for a gas tax to pay for alternative energy.

Gas prices won't be this low forever, and US consumers are calibrated for $4.00 gas.

It is precisely now that R&D of alternative energy resources should be pushed aggressively. Waiting for gas prices to rise to $5 or $6 is too late - at that point, consumers can't afford it.

Tweak the gas tax monthly so that the average pump price stays at $3.

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Now is the time for a gas tax to pay for alternative energy. (Original Post) lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 OP

That would require a society of informed intelligent citizens with a sense of common goals Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #1

Sadly, I agree with you about our society. nt ladjf Dec 2014 #4

+1 Kaleva Dec 2014 #2

If we're being purely rational, it's *always* the time for such a tax. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #3

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

1. That would require a society of informed intelligent citizens with a sense of common goals

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 02:45 PM

Dec 2014

I cannot think of a description of a society less like ours.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)

4. Sadly, I agree with you about our society. nt

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 03:10 PM

Dec 2014

Kaleva

(36,259 posts)

2. +1

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 02:56 PM

Dec 2014

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)

3. If we're being purely rational, it's *always* the time for such a tax.

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 03:03 PM

Dec 2014

Gasoline is fucking stupid. We're setting fire to goo created by dinosaur corpses. That's some Special Ed behavior, not the decision-making one would identify with a technological intelligence.

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