Re: This is what scares me more than anything

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the general sense of not discouraging oil consumption, yeah.
>
> *** Because the proposal has nothing to do with consumption, it has to 
> do with a crumbling infrastructure that *all* vehicles contribute to.

But if we're going to fund that some way, I like the way that encourages
conservation. So sue me.

**I will, if you unfairly tax me  :)

> Given our lack of alternatives, yeah.
>
> ***As noted there are plenty of alternatives actually.

Plenty of alternatives that are less palatable.

**to you perhaps, but not in general.. How is reigning in spending
unpalatable?


>> (after noting that they don't work, ironically).
>
> Wha?
>
> " Actually, electric & hybrid vehicles are one reason a simple gas tax 
> doesn't work. Revenues going down. :("
>
> ***so the answer is to increase what doesn't work, thus further 
> lowering revenues and starting the cycle all over again?

It's a start. It's what I'd do right now, once my pre-conditions are met. :)

**You should be in government.  They are the masters of dogged insistence of
maintaining and increasing failed policies.


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