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Originally Posted by ffrcobra_65
I say we ship the tree huggers out of this country to iceland so we can start drilling the massive amount of oil we have here and we pay $1/gallon.
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Problem is your CURRENT taxes are over a $1/gallon. So your plan would require drilling and eliminating the gas taxes as well. Just sayin'...........but even $2 would be ok. But to get the amount of oil from our resources requires shale. Shale last I checked requires 3 times the processing that the Jed Clampett oil does (shoot at some food up comes some bubbling crude, cheap a$$ oil). Even the Canadien tar sands require one extra step of processing/refining.
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Originally Posted by kbui
Prices would probably be increasing with time anyway. Why should the government even be involved in setting prices?
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You mean like in most of the other products every day? A lot of farm and crop subsidies are already well ingrained in the prices we pay for food. But if your point is take ALL subsidies away, I'm with you. Just be prepared to be buying food from South America and end the last of the family farms.............which is I think why those subsidies won't go away.
Read an article today that suggested the impact of the 2025 CAFE standard will cost anywhere from $3,500 to almost $10,000 per vehicle. The article aslo suggested that at even $6/gallon, these technology improvements would not pay for themselves.
So you can pay a tax to the government or you can pay a mandated extra up front fee for your vehicle. If it is a gas tax, you can at least choose of your own free will how much you drive. But with CAFE you will pay regardless of how much you drive up front. The article also goes on to suggest that these added costs will cut nearly 5 million vehicles from the annual vehicle sales and cost upwards of 200,000 jobs. Not buying or selling. The article also quotes those that claim all this technology will magically be free by the time we need it.