| Re: new gas tax
"joseph.santaniello@gmail.com" <joseph.santaniello@gmail.com> wrote:
>Gas is $8 per gallon here. It doesn't seem to affect how many cars
>there are on the road. People drive what they have to. If gas was only
>$3 per gallon, would I drive my kids to school twice each day? Would I
>drive 2 cars at once?
>
>Maybe much higher prices in the long run influence how far a small few
>commute or where they move, but in terms of expecting any discernable
>reduction in the number of cars, forget it. People will piss and moan,
>and say they are going to cut down, but 99.9% of them won't.
The cars in Norway get better gas mileage than the ones in the US. Here
they are big and getting bigger all the time, as people believe they are
safer in a huge SUV. A higher tax in the US would encourage people to drive
smaller cars.
Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
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