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Congress, Bush Scramble for Gas Price Fix
Lawmakers are walking a tightrope. With gasoline prices soaring they want to appear tough on oil companies.
Not too tough, though. Their idea of being tough on the oil companies? Tax them.
Companies do not pay taxes, we pay them. All companies roll the cost of taxes into their product, then sell it to us. Company and corporate taxes are the largest hidden taxes in the world.
$100 fuel-cost rebate for millions of taxpayers and proposals to rescind oil industry tax breaks enacted only eight months ago, and other measures. At today’s rates - that’ll buy me 30 gallons of gasoline. The $100 rebate will cost $200 to develop the program and mail the checks. Big government types love it; taxpayers should hate it.
We don’t want or need $100, we need a real energy policy. Drill in ANWR, the Gulf Coast, and California, relax the EPA regulations on building new refineries, suspend the federal tax on gasoline, and forget about taxing oil companies.
At the White House Friday, President Bush rejected calls for a tax on oil company profits.
“The temptation in Washington is to tax everything,” Bush said in an exchange with reporters in the White House Rose Garden. Rather than for the government to reap the benefit from oil company profits driven by the recent surge in global oil prices, he said, “The answer is for there to be strong re-investment.”
“These oil prices are a wakeup call,” Bush said. “We’re dependent on oil. We need to get off oil.”
Air Hybrid Engines, anyone: “What driving a hybrid will really cost you. Rising fuel prices and tax breaks ease the price of driving green. Here’s what it’ll cost to own any of the seven best new hybrids vs. their gas-engine counterparts.”
April 28, 2006 - 01:23 PM on April 28th, 2006
you want it, you get it, just say yes to the new world order, and all of you will do just that, so watch TV watch the Mexicans march, watch the reds yell for your life and watch the evil flags of mexico and others fly by your little heads and be good little new Jews for the third world evil and the new world order:wink: I can’t wait until your children start understanding what you did:twisted: someday your own children will thank you,”oh yes”, and someday in the right way, if you know what i mean?
April 28, 2006 - 01:26 PM on April 28th, 2006
Watching our so called Leaders running around like chickens with their heads cut off is simultanously sad and amusing.
Now we have people praying for cheap Gas… great…
http://goofyblog.net/bible-had-it-wrong-jesus-died-for-our-oil-not-our-sins/
- Patamon
April 28, 2006 - 01:38 PM on April 28th, 2006
This is a stupid and short sighted idea. What needs to be done is:
1. Expland supply of gasoline.
A. More Refineries
B. Fewer Gasoline Blends mandated by EPA
C. Explore for more Oil sources.
2. Bag all the “pie in the sky” alternative fuels talk. Focus on the real and do-able.
3. Suspend Gas Tax collections and projects those projected tax collections were going to pay for.
4. Muzzle the Windfall profits tax crowd.
On 4 this is my beef. The extra tax won’t do joe sixpack any good. The Congress just sees this as a way to fund more crappola porkbarrel spending.
It also sends a message that if you are too successful in this country, you will get punished for it, not rewarded
April 28, 2006 - 01:43 PM on April 28th, 2006
3. PCD.. I have to differ with you on this one..
I could give a RATS ASS how much a price of gas costs…I don’t own a car anymore, and if enough people lived like I do……we wouldn’t be in this mess
I live in the city.. I work in the city… I don’t need a car….when I do..there is an AMAZING service.. http://www.phillycarshare.org where like-minded folks like me can rent vehicles temporarily.. and there is always the real rental places for longer trips… the bottom line is, I am helping to keep an extra gaz-guzzling, terror machine off the roads.. more should do the same.
April 28, 2006 - 01:46 PM on April 28th, 2006
Immediately order all Enviro-whackos and Libs that have stopped drilling in ANWR and elsewhere, stopped the construction of new refineries, plus opposed transitioning to Nuclear Power, to stop driving their cars. They are not entitled to any gasoline. They can walk to the courthouse to file their environmental lawsuits. They can use public transportation to starbucks.
April 28, 2006 - 01:48 PM on April 28th, 2006
Mike, you need to visit “fly over country”. You forget tractors that are used in farming use gasoline, too. You can’t carpool a tractor.
April 28, 2006 - 02:01 PM on April 28th, 2006
That’s true, PCD………..but fucking chevy suburbans do NOT belong in the parking lots of suburban “soccer moms” driving 35 miles into the city every day with ONE FUCKING PERSON IN THEM.
April 28, 2006 - 02:04 PM on April 28th, 2006
You could probably rent one, though
April 28, 2006 - 03:05 PM on April 28th, 2006
The $100 check is a dumb idea, useful only for appearance purposes. I thought the same thing when I heard it: 1. Where is that money coming from, and 2. How much does it cost the Gov’t to send that $100?
April 28, 2006 - 03:26 PM on April 28th, 2006
I side with Mike Kilo on this. We both share similar experiences living in a big city and utilizing public transportation, car rental, or other methods…
I’m not calling YOU dumb, PCDick, but the ideas you listed I think are short sighted and…dumb.
We need to get off this addiction to Oil and gasoline, and making it easier or cheaper to get gas and oil is NOT part of the solution. Some one compared it to making drinks cheaper for alcoholics. Bad idea.
We need clean, renewable sources of energy. We do not need more or cheaper Oil.
If we can all resolve the waste disposal problem first, SF Liberal might sign on to the Nuclear Power idea for a transitional amount of time.
Why do Big Three auto makers still put out (and do you buy) gas guzzling SUV monsters? Most other advanced nations have smaller cars.
Christ, even China has better requirements for car/gas mileage than the US.
April 28, 2006 - 03:30 PM on April 28th, 2006
Regarding “fly-over country” tractors and the like, we put men on the moon, we can make them run on something other than gas…and we can create synthetic oils too.
We’re Americans - we can build anything, I think, if we put our minds to it.
April 28, 2006 - 03:33 PM on April 28th, 2006
Nuclear/hydrogen is the future.
The only way to diminish our addiction to oil would be to eliminate its use for transportation and power generation. That starts with Nuclear power 100% for power generation. Then develop the Hydrogen fuel cell, use Nuclear power at night to generate Hydrogen. If the Hydrogen fuel cell and the related engineering problems can be solved, there’s the answer.
There’s no problems with Nuclear waste except the NIMBYs and the nuts.
April 28, 2006 - 03:38 PM on April 28th, 2006
“…for a transitional amount of time.”
For transition to what? Even the Hydrogen fuel cell is still in the laboratory, with many engineering and safety problems also to be resolved.
There is nothing even on the drawing board that can replace the enormous amount of energy used every day and provided by oil.
April 28, 2006 - 03:57 PM on April 28th, 2006
#12 Robert, I was with you until the end!
“There’s no problems with Nuclear waste except the NIMBYs and the nuts.”
Ha! How about we put it in YOUR neighborhood? Maybe behind your grandparent’s house? No, Robert, there is a big problem with the waste and it’s called RADIOACTIVITY. If it gets into the ground water…
Don’t be so naive. But at least we agree on the need to start thinking about Nuclear energy again.
Nuclear “…for a transitional amount of time.” means just that. Something to tide us over while we develop new energy sources that are clean and safe.
“There is nothing even on the drawing board that can replace the enormous amount of energy used every day and provided by oil.”
Do you want some cheese with that whine? We’re Americans, Robert. We put men on the moon; I think we can come up with something. (!)
April 28, 2006 - 05:59 PM on April 28th, 2006
Whine? Are you joking? New technology doesn’t just come out of a hat. It starts with the scientists, in the laboratory. What is in the laboratory, on the horizon, that even exists in part, to replace the energy we get from oil?
You think it’s all magic? We just wave a magic wand?
May 1, 2006 - 08:24 AM on May 1st, 2006
SF Dope Head, morons like you make laws so that you can’t convert current vehicles to E85. Why you can’t convert your car to E85.
Also, you are the short sighted one. In the country we don’t live cheek to jowl like you do. Buttheads like you come out to the country and make trouble because you can’t live without government providing transportation and price regulated stores on the bus line.