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Re:Food security and the coming storm by ajsnigrutin on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:05PM (#31554833)
People have been waking up to this during the current gas price crisis... governments say they're doing everything they can, but they can't do more, because of the global oil prices,...

...meanwhile more than half of the gas price goes to the government, and people are notcing.

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Re:Food security and the coming storm by imtringued on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:23AM (#31557413)
How is a market price distortion (artificially lowering gas prices through tax cuts) supposed to solve the gas price crisis? You want people to use less gas, so there is more left over for the industries that actually need it. You don't want consumers to use subsidized gas wastefully.
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Re:Food security and the coming storm by ajsnigrutin on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:11AM (#31558175)
You also want people to be able to get to work and not freeze to death in their apartments, and still be able to afford food after that.

It's not a gas crisis, there's enough gas, it's a politics crisis.

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Re:Food security and the coming storm by zdragnar on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:37PM (#31554992)
The idea of a federal gas tax holiday has apparently been floating around DC lately, but I'm pretty skeptical that they'll be able to return to full taxes without significant pushback.
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