Posted on 12/11/2014 7:08:04 AM PST by Citizen Zed
A left-coast writer named Mark Morford thinks that gas prices falling to $2 a gallon would be the worst thing to happen to America. After all, he says, the wrong people would profit: oil companies (why would oil companies profit from lower gas prices?), auto makers, and internet retailers like Amazon that offer free shipping.
If falling gas prices are the worst for America, then the best, Morford goes on to say, would be to raise gas taxes by $6 a gallon and dedicate all of the revenue to (boondoggles) “alternative energy and transport, environmental protections, our busted educational system, our multi-trillion debt.” After all, government has proven itself so capable of finding the most cost-effective solutions to any problem in the past, and there’s no better way to reduce the debt than to tax the economy to death.
Morford is right in line with progressives like Naomi Klein, who thinks climate change is a grand opportunity to make war on capitalism. Despite doubts cast by other leftists, Klein insists that “responding to climate change could be the catalyst for a positive social and economic transformation”–by which she means government control of transportation, housing, and just about everything else.
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Just like Europe...
One thing for sure, it crushes Alberta. Any lower and the Keystone pipeline might be pumping mountain air down south.
Despite all its warts, it looks like a Republican Congress is going to pull Obola’s bony rear outta the sling just like it did Clintoon’s.
Articles like this demonstrate just how out of touch liberals are. Despite the myths, they know or care nothing for the Little People they claim to represent.
This is why the American people are fortunate to have a Republican Congress. If the Democrats had control, they would have taxed gas in this manner as their first order of business.
Do they still pay Morford to write his idiocy?
Haven’t seen one of his bowel movements passed-off as journalism in a long time.
I never thought I’d again see bargain basement prices for gas. LOL! The lowest I’ve seen in the past couple of weeks in Reno is $2.71. So some brilliant forward thinker wrote a letter to the editor in yesterday’s reno gazette urninal and said now that the prices are down over a dollar/gal, it would be a good time to raise the NV gasoline tax from 33 cents per gallon to 48 cents per gallon. Of course with a provision that if the price rises to a certain level (which it will) the additional 15 cents would be rescinded. Uh, no thanks asshat. Does anyone really think that once they get their paws on an extra 15 cents/gal they would give it up? Some on fixed income or making less than the $15/hr that some folks demand kinda like the current prices.
Guess I missed something about pulling a bone out of something and someones rear.............?
I was in Alabama this summer. That mountain air might not be a bad idea. Oh wait, that would cause climate change in the south. Can’t have that.
Inference being that shippers charge less? Complete BS.
The teeming masses are out spewing evil carbon.
Liberals are troubled....
Personal mobility is the enemy of the state.
I guess one of the few upsides of putting the RINOS back in charge is that if Reid and Pelosi were still running the show this would actually happen.
Well, there's your problem right there!
Quit thinking, you liberal, progressive dumbass!
Every time you fools "think", we end up with crap like Obamacare, climate change bullshit, welfare queens, over-reaching government largesse...etc, etc.
Quit thinking and leave it up to the people that wear the big-boy pants...not the silly little pajama-boy onsies.
Now get out...and take Al Sharpton with you.
Gas prices rise to $1.89 in 2008 - “Blame Bush and his oil buddies!”
Gas prices drop to $2.51 in 2014 - “Thank you, Obama, our Dear Leader and Messiah!”
Sa-LOOT!
When will these people learn about supply and demand?
Low prices mean more people will use the product and they will sell more.
High prices means people will have to pay more and thus will use less.
Either way they still make money.
I saw gas for $2.19 yesterday!!
No, his implication is that they make a greater profit since the actual shipping costs will be lower.
It’s a huge tax break for Americans. Each penny drop is a billion dollar infusion into the economy.
Cheap gasoline is power to the people. More is better.
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