Re: Get with the program
- From: "John A. Weeks III" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:45:38 -0600
In article <AAr4l.3343$Uk3.3075@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nobody Special <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suggestions provided have been; taxing all fossil fuels to discourage
use, limiting supply of fossil fuels and controlling use by means of a
government issued ration system, cap and trade credit system.
I think that would be a good idea. I think the price of products
should reflect the entire cost of the product. For example, if you
buy a toaster, the price of the toaster should include the cost
to dispose of that toaster at the end of its life. If we had to
pay disposal costs up front, perhaps that would encourage companies
to build products that lasted longer or were repairable.
Gasoline especially should have more taxes. While I don't like
paying the higher prices, there is little argument that the low
price of gas is possible because so much of the infrastructure
is paid for by the government out of the national budget. For
example, look at the cost of the regulatory agencies like
pollution control and weights & measures that go into the
gasoline chain, plus the cost of military protection of the oil
and the supertankers.
The higher price of gas would be a wash since those added fees
would offset money currently paid by taxes. Plus making gas
prices reflect the real price of gas would make room for alternate
energy to be more cost effective, and it would discourage wasteful
use of fuel such as driving trucks in places where there are train
tracks.
Gasoline will be 5$ a gallon soon (diesel may be more) and expect your
electric and natural gas prices to climb at the same time.
Great prediction...all of these are down in my area, with gas falling
from $4.05 down to $1.53 in precent months.
If you think you can keep living in warn homes and driving vehicles that
burn fuel just to go places, you had better think again. Those times
will be ending very soon.
I'm sorry, it will take more than talk to scare me. People have
predicted that we will run out of oil every 20 years since the 1880s,
and each year, the amount of proven oil reserves continues to climb.
The total proven oil reserves are at an all time high again this
decade, and we find oil or gas nearly every place that we drill.
We live on a planet awash in oil. That doesn't mean that I should
waste our oil, but it does show that we are not going back to the
stone age as you fear mongers suggest.
-john-
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