Think of all the people who can get jobs as rickshaw drivers!
Just when you wondered if Congress could get any dumber!
Before memories become too short, remember the summer of 2008 when gasoline hit a whopping $4.50 gallon and began the tipping point of our current national economic meltdown.
Sure there were plenty of other teetering aspects at the time, but it was the sudden surge of gasoline prices which broke the camel's back.
Also remember that when Dubya signed an Executive Order allowing offshore drilling, how the price of gasoline plummeted almost immediately ... dropping to a low of $1.62 gallon in these parts (January 2009) ... I hadn't seen those types of gas prices since 2002!
Yer exactly right, taxing gasoline is the completely WRONG approach, and doesn't solve anything ... but of course we're dealing with an out-of-control government and that's the only thing they know --- MO MONEY MO MONEY MO MONEY ---
/sigh
-- MM