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soul2share -> RE: suspend the gas tax? (4/16/2008 3:52:26 AM)
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The man is running for prez......he's trying to buy votes.......I stay out of most political things, but if that man wins......we're screwed!
Anyway, Illinois tried this a few years back, they dropped the state tax collection for three months.....didn't make much of an apparent difference. It was a temporary "fix" that didn't fix a thing. How about Congress actually doing something about the big gas companies posting double digit profits while we suffer for their greed? Then again, since most of the upper eschalon people in the gas companies know Bush.......well, that ain't goin' anywhere either.
I now drive a scooter around town....I pay $6 a week for gas, yeah, it can be a little incovenient, but overall, it's working so far. And I'm seeing more and more scooters and motorcycles on the road here.......even in "winter". Even bikes are popping up everywhere.
I have noticed a trend in the last 2 years tho....they hike the gas up to whatever price they want it at, listen to the american public bitch, drop the price back for a few months, then push it back up. And surprise, no one bitches about it.....it happened here when gas hit $3 a gallon last year.....when it hit the same here again this year, it went unnoticed...when it started climbing again, then the yelling started.....now the projected price is $4.....it will get close, then drop back for a period of time, and when it again hits $4, it will be accepted. No, I don't have any answers to solve the problem, other than the obvious ones stated all over the news....stop depending on foreign oil, etc. As long as we are willing to pay for it, well, then, we have no real reason to bitch.
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