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By: Hermancain

Hermancain — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:38:00 +0000

Yea with your thinking about gas taxes you are an idiot-STOP WASTING MONEY on wars that does not involve the USA and there wuld be the money needed for green fuels etc.E+What was you born with a silver spoon-you sure don’t look old rnough to have earned you money-or is the government paying you to spread crap-do not respond cause you make me sick

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By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:22:00 +0000

Of course you’re making the great leap that the money will actually be spent on development of mass transit. Unlike what has happened in the past, were the funds are usurped for other purposes by politicians or where people have fought against such developments because we don’t want them in our backyard.

Having lived in Southern California and Chicago and Europe, I have seen many different takes on this problem. In Chicago, the elevated rail was built and then people and business moved in around it because it was convenient.

But in Southern California, for all of their espousing environmentalism, if a high speed rail was being built near the houses of the movie stars you’d hear a mass outcry about the loss of property values. Plus politicians need to pay off contributors with new projects. One of the stupidest projects that I saw in LA was the removal of train tracks so a bus route could be built from the subway. What a waste of money plus a rail system is much faster than the buses.

In Europe, people just got used to paying higher taxes and the roads were improved (i.e. the Autobahn).

Increasing taxes does not automatically guarantee that the funds will be used appropriately or wisely. Maybe a smarter approach would be to give private enterprise the right to enter into these areas (roads, trains, etc), where the profit motive tends to make wiser (albeit not so overboard) decisions. Why do I need a high speed train to get to work? My job is 30 miles from my house. By the time the train got started, it would have to stop. Sounds pretty but not very practical. How many people actually live a hundred miles or more from their job?

The only high speed rail project I have heard of that makes some sense is the LA to Vegas run. But why should the taxpayers pay for this. Let those that would benefit pay for it – the casinos and the gamblers.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:23:07 +0000

William, do people pay for gas before or after taxes?… of course, they pay for it after taxes. so, yes, Europeans pay about twice as much for gas

By: William Hoy

William Hoy — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:22:07 +0000

No, Europeans do not pay twice as much for gas. They pay about the same. The difference is almost entirely taxes, and this leads to the core problem-tax envy on the part of liberals.

By: Feargal

Feargal — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:54:51 +0000

I live in ireland and we pay 1.53 euro a litre. Thats $8.10 a gallon! The US would cry if that’s what ye had to pay! And it will be soon, better get your house in order!

New cars here are around 45-65 mpg btw

By: miro novak

miro novak — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:57:44 +0000

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By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:29:09 +0000

Len, 1) the railroads were run out of town by gov’t support for the automobile, which is still subsidized drastically more than rail; 2) air transport is HEAVILY subsidized by the government — if you had to pay the true cost, you’d never fly anywhere; 3) rail actually brings you in much closer to where people live than planes do, so that argument is also a little backwards; 4) algae biofuels haven’t proven themselves yet. they are promising, but haven’t shown they are THE solution.

By: Len Marshman, Mr.

Len Marshman, Mr. — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000

High-speed rail is NOT the answer to transportation needs in this country; the U.S. is simply too large, and rail is too costly to make any money without government intervention. Else, why did all of the U.S. railroads jettison passenger rail in the 1960’s? Right now, other than paying for the FAA and airports, if you want to fly from your home to grandma’s in Poughkeepsie, YOU pay for it. With national high-speed rail, I get to pay for your trip, too. Then again, rail, like air, is only a “macro” solution. Unless you and grandma live within a mile or two of the station, how do you get from to and from the depot? The NYC sub-way model does not work for most other defined communities. Then again, if and when petroleum does disappear, no doubt bio-fuels, including the very promising algae-type, will take its place. Finally, how come whenever there’s a political
up-rising or earthquake in any of the oil-producing regions, it IMMEDIATELY results in higher U.S. fuel prices, even though the argument is, “We get only _% of oil from ______”? Don’t you realize it’s all a big con?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:29:50 +0000

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Sorry if your not but I just got an e-mail informing me that a prince from Uganda left me a pile of money…

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By: SAM

SAM — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:26:39 +0000

The US has a 200 (two hundred) year supply of natural gas that can be converted to clean, efficient use in personal and commercial vehicles. Of course there is some front end cost for gas stations to make the conversion which would be quickly recovered. Two hundred years from now there will doubtless be alternatives to fuel as well as transportation.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:26:36 +0000

Thanks, Mike. Yes, the politicians today are not interested in what is better for the country in the not-too-distant future, only in what keeps them in office (most of them)…

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:25:10 +0000

a gas tax should be directly tied to transportation improvement projects. however, as you seem to hint, with the corrupt Congress we have these days, not much hope of that. but if we want to be realistic about it, what’s the chance they would ever pass a gas tax?

By: Dave G

Dave G — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:32:01 +0000

All this sounds great in theory, but in practice, higher gas tax ( or any other tax, for that matter ), will only go into the hugh slop trough that congress and the house feed from. Virtually none of it would go to any decent, honorable cause. The Federal Hogs would cry otherwise, but we should know by now better than to believe them!

By: Mike at HomePowerSaver

Mike at HomePowerSaver — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:46:50 +0000

Thanks for injecting a bit of humor into this serious issue. There are so many easy and painless steps we can take to reduce our gas and oil usage and save money today and position is better for the future.

Regarding taxes, I completely agree that a small hike makes sense. Our infrastructure needs it if we want to be competitive globally! Improving infrastructure creates jobs and makes society more efficient (i.e. less time commuting, less time in our cars burning gas, etc). Unfortunately the political climate today doesn’t want to consider investments for 5 years from now, much less 10, 20, or 50 years into the future.

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