Comments on: Rising Gas Prices Take Their Toll (And Your Taxes)

By: taxman100

taxman100 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:19 +0000

Where I live, we are already facing a tax increase request for the city income tax, the school district wants higher taxes, and the County Mental Retardation Board wants a tax increase. I think the Senior Citizen Board wants one too.

What I’m getting at is no matter how much you pay in taxes, it is never enough. All it does is take more money out of your pocket, and give Big Brother more resources in which to control and dominate your life.

By: EngineeringTheAtom

EngineeringTheAtom — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:20:37 +0000

Raising gas prices hasn’t changed my habits at all. And I’d appreciate it if people would stop throwing conservation ideas down my throat. Sorry, but February in northern Ohio doesn’t lend itself to smarts and motorcycles.

And increase my taxes and I’ll just donate less of my paycheck.

By: lewissalem

lewissalem — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:53:21 +0000

Ride a bike. Down Gratiot. In Detroit. In February. Ok Freedner.

By: quasimondo

quasimondo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:20:51 +0000

Or has it?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/europe-falling-behind-in-kyoto-carbon-targets/2007/06/15/1181414548676.html

By: guyincognito

guyincognito — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:04:16 +0000

The great thing is that increasing fuel prices have also dramatically reduced greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.

By: Stein X Leikanger

Stein X Leikanger — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:50:55 +0000

Thanks for the link. I have my reading cut out for me!

By: Jerome10

Jerome10 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:12:09 +0000

More proof that CAFE is a ridiculous way to go about reducing fuel consumption.

Yeah, it would suck, but most American’s aren’t going to change unless their wallets make them.

Raise the fuel taxes if you wanna get serious about saving gasoline. Extend that to natural gas for heating homes as well.

By: virages

virages — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:08 +0000

Hey, where I am, gas is going for $7 a gallon. It does change habits. I bike to work, and although it saves a lot, I prefer to bike to work anyway. But as for other car trips, planning is required. Back in the day when I lived in the USA in the ’90s, a car would be used every time I had to go some where, and I’d even take the car just looking for something to do.

The bright side of not using the car so often is less time in traffic jams and it makes the occasion more special… not an everyday affair.