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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by thoughtsimple on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:09PM (#6355829)
And in the US we are starting to tax cars that use less gasoline than average. Not exactly in sync with the problem.
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by forgingahead on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:19PM (#6355879)
Yes, because the gas tax is not used only to discourage consumption, but to fund road construction and repair.[1]

The simple consequence of getting used to the idea of a tax revenue stream (because current and future spending depends on it), only to have that revenue stream be threatened (because of non-gas guzzling vehicles), leads to the blunt reaction of "hey, let's just tax them more".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund

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