Re: This is what scares me more than anything
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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> To me it's not just the issue of "we need to keep transportation tax > revenue steady/growing". It's coming up with such an inefficient and > difficult way of doing so that does not encourage the right behavior. > > ***I think I object to this being phrased as good and bad behavior. If govt is going to encourage behavior (and it is in everything it does), I'd rather it be good. **and that gives you the right to judge someone else's behavior as good or bad? > If I > have a car that only gets 15 mpg that is my business and I have to pay > the consequence in higher fuel prices. Yes. I just don't see why govt should subsidize those that don't care to get a more efficient vehicle. And remember, this isn't just a matter of personal preference. Our dependence on foreign oil exacts a high price. ***which has nothing to do with hybrids. That has everything to do with energy independence, something the administration opposes. > I personally bought a car that gets 38 hwy, but I did so for selfish > reasons, not because I wanted to be rewarded for good behavior. > That right there seems a little contradictory. You *are* being rewarded for good behavior. Maybe you just don't like that phrase. **it is not a behavior of any kind. Have we so watered good and bad? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot