Gas Price

[Maugan_VX]

I can't even begin to express my shock ans awe at the profound ignorance that this proposed legislation displays.

While I'm not opposed to market forces driving the price of oil up and down, the government needs to butt the hell out of legislating behavior. (Same goes for taxing alcohol and cigarettes)

I hope everyone realizes just how much you'll be paying for everyday items like food, clothes, or anything that needs to be hauled BY A TRUCK or a PLANE if fuel prices were to artificially increase to $6 a gallon.

Please don't mistake my comments as anti-alternative fuels, I just don't think that taxing society into submission is the way to do it.

[Bisquait]

JAFO - the link you posted discusses Robert Frank (not Bernanke) "suggesting" a gas-tax in an article he wrote for the Times (not proposing it to congress). The article you are referencing is negating your own arguement.

I guess I would have two main points here.
A) Dont facilitate without checking facts first. And even then, be sure to subjectively look at said "facts", because...
B) Statistics can be altered. A prime example is the other link you posted. Sure, they happened to talk about 5 or 6 countries that have higher gas prices than we do. But I'm sure if you were on the other side of the argument, you could show 30 countries that have lower gas prices than we do. Then we'd be at the top of the list, and the article could have a completely different meaning. Point is, dont believe everything you see or read, especially from your government and definitely not the media.

I notice there's another thread thats following along the same discussion. Maybe an admin could combine the two threads?