Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say ($7 gallon gas to meet Obama's targets for emissions?)

The New York Times ^ | March 2, 2010 | Sindyan N. Bhanoo

[Cheap_Hessian]

To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.

[driftdiver]

Didn’t they get the memo that all the AGW data was fake?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Imagine the reduction in carbon emissions that could be achieved by muzzling all the “Harvard researchers”.

[Cheap_Hessian]

Ping!

[webschooner]

It all depends on how soon these assclowns want a full blown depression.

[TrumpisRight]

When did the USA become Europe?!?!?!?!?

BHO is taking us down the primrose path and we don’t even get a dinner!

[SunkenCiv]

• The Bum Rap on Biofuels
• Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed

[Farmer Dean]

7 dollar gas=pols decorating lamp posts.

[Big Giant Head]

I volunteer HARVARD professors to pay $7/gallon for 10 years. Let’s see how they get along first.

[richardtavor]

Maybe the masses need to defund Harvard and the EPA.

[umgud]

For anyone who thinks the economy is in the crapper now, just wait for this little number.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam Me to Planet Gore !

[Glenn]

I can afford gasoline for my five hybrid-offset vehicle at $7 a gallon.

Suck my tailpipe, greenies.

[freedomfiter2]

$7 per gallon gas would result in the great depression looking like the good old days.

[bmwcyle]

Did McCain try to meet Obama in the middle yet?

[El Cid]

Didn’t they get the memo that all the AGW data was fake?

I know. The American MSM and the bulk of the Government bureaucrats are going around with fingers in their ears and saying, 'la-la-la', whenever people point out that the Global Warming 'hypothesis' has been built on a foundation of lies, hand-picked data, and tortured computer models...

[Disambiguator]

It seems like Harvard folks always want things that will either cost us our money, freedom, or both.

A pox on all of them, I say.

[Cheap_Hessian]

But you see, the Ivy League Harvard types are smarter than the rest of us middle class simpletons. Freedom is boring... why are we wasting precious resources on our pathetic needs and wants? Our dear leaders could help us collectively change the world if us rubes would just shut off! We are not the anointed! We are not the elite!

Who are we to say we cannot afford $7 gas? How selfish are we trying to better the lives of the middle class by avoiding a Great Depression? We need to obey the brain trust to guide us out of this mess and lead us into the land of bilk and cheap money. /s - the whole post

[Nuc1]

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.

Well, we will unset those targets soon enough. The tyrants of the EPA are going to get reigned in also. This is your swan song libtards, enjoy it.

[combat_boots]

Of course Sor0bama wants $7.00/gallon gas. In REAL terms, not today’s dollars.

After all, $4.00/gallon and the missing $550 billion run on US banks elected them in the 1st place.