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Article #6824Re: Are you FED UP with high gas prices?!
From: Les Earnest
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
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Laura Cohan wrote: > If you have had it with California's ultra-high gas prices, visit this > page to download a petition and make a stand. > Our politicians will only pay attention to us if we show them IN WRITING > that we are upset, and we vote. > http://tmx.com/gasprices What nonsense! California gas prices are among the cheapest in the world, though a bit high than in some other parts of the U.S. The principal reason that the prices are so low in this country is that many of the costs of motor vehicles, such as roads, parking facilities, pollution countermeasures and disposal of abandoned vehicles, are paid for or subsidized by general tax revenues. Thus taxpayers who use motor vehicles very little or not at all are being unfairly required to subsidize the motor-heads. What the politicians SHOULD be doing is to raise gas taxes to the point where they cover the actual cost of operating motor vehicles. Because they are politicians they are doing just the opposite, with encouragement from those who put personal gain ahead of fairness and long term societal benefits. -- Les Earnest (les@cs.stanford.edu) Phone: 415 941-3984 Computer Science Dept.; Stanford, CA 94305 Fax: 415 941-3934
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1042c7,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1042c7,public X-Google-Thread: 10db0a,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0a,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d9,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d9,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 101dd2,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid101dd2,public X-Google-Thread: f6c48,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6c48,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,a4a61e135760b2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: les@Steam.Stanford.edu (Les Earnest) Subject: Re: Are you FED UP with high gas prices?! Date: 1996/06/20 Message-ID: <4qcdqs$52b@nntp.Stanford.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 161277788 references: <4qa110$6u4@news.scruz.net> <4qc8u4$ci9@athena.ulaval.ca> followup-to: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house,uiuc.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,relcom.consumers,uiuc.misc.consumers,ba.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,tw.bbs.soc.consumers organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University reply-to: les@cs.stanford.edu newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house,uiuc.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,relcom.consumers,uiuc.misc.consumers,ba.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,tw.bbs.soc.consumers