Ron Lussier wrote: >I've long believed that U.S. gasoline taxes should be several dollars / >gallon. This would come closer to covering the government subsidies on >automobiles. It would also discourage driving, always a good thing. >- - - - Clara wrote: >but if you drive a 30 year old car, the subsidies are irrelevant. why not >reduce car subsidies? did you know that a third of the pollution that a car >makes in its'lifetime' is in production? but actually, gas prices haven't >gone up that much, compared to other things. Last time I checked, this was not a forum for expressing our political beliefs. I have a lot of opinions about politics, but I try not to discuss them on this list.
-David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) Dallas, Texas, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: ddes@anet-dfw.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (13.986@100.81) http://www.teleport.com/~des '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.