Congress Should Vote To Temporarily Rescind the Federal Tax On Gasoline.

8/22/05 | moose2004

[BradtotheBone]

Won't happen.

[JBR34]

I actually want the prices to go a little higher. This gives me great talking points with my liberal friends. I can say this is exactly what you wanted. Cleaner air, smaller cars, more conservation because it costs so much, those 1980's gas guzzling unsafe wrecks will up on blocks, and the highways will be safer because their are fewer cars. When they frown just say, I can't believe you now want to drill in ANWR, the Gulf Coast, Off California, and build nuclear power plants. Sometimes you get what you want. Stop complaining and live with it.

[Polyxene]

No, the federal gas tax is fixed at 18.4 cents per gallon.


PLUS, state gas taxes! Here in Ohio, the state tax is over 40 cents!! We can all thank Taxman Taft for the increase!

[OldFriend]

You almost made sense till your last sentence.

[JoeSixPack1]

Oh yeah, lower the pump price by eliminating all taxes and allow the fuel vendors to keep raising the pomp price. Real smart.

And Exxon/Mobile just posted a 31% profit increase over last year. Gee, let's punish our tax system and reward the corporate thieves. Yeah, that's the ticket.

NOT!

[kaktuskid]

Get Mexico to build refineries close to the border and pipe refined gasoline into the US.

Mexico can't run it's own refineries w/o blowing them up!

[biblewonk]

Not again! Rolling my eyes.

[paradoxical]

Total gas tax is NV is .52 cents
I think all taxes should be halved for a start

[Cobra64]

I liked your sarcasm to moose about supply and demand. Thank God that both my children minored in Economics.

[Aggie Mama]

Do you not like capitalism or are you just against oil companies in general? The oil industry is cylical--there are good times and horrible times. It seems like most of this country likes it when the oil companies hit the hard times and are laying off people left and right. God forbid we enjoy the benefits of a somewhat free market.

If you don't like the product or industry, then ride a bike, walk or get a hybrid car.

[HawaiianGecko]

	Federal gas tax is a 18.4 cents/gallon period. The U.S. federal gasoline tax as of 2005 was 18.4 cents per U.S. gallon (4.86 ¢/L), and the gasoline taxes in the various states range from 10 cents to 33 cents, averaging about 22 cents per U.S. gallon (5.8 ¢/L). Unlike most goods in the US, the price displayed includes all taxes, rather than being calculated at the point of purchase. http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp http://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2004/fcvt_fotw317.shtml The list goes on forever, simply google "federal gasoline taxes"

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Federal gas tax is a 18.4 cents/gallon period.

The U.S. federal gasoline tax as of 2005 was 18.4 cents per U.S. gallon (4.86 ¢/L), and the gasoline taxes in the various states range from 10 cents to 33 cents, averaging about 22 cents per U.S. gallon (5.8 ¢/L). Unlike most goods in the US, the price displayed includes all taxes, rather than being calculated at the point of purchase.

http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp

http://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2004/fcvt_fotw317.shtml

The list goes on forever, simply google "federal gasoline taxes"

[Cobra64]

Get Mexico to build refineries close to the border and pipe refined gasoline into the US.

W to Fox: "Build three refineries near our border or we're going to nuke you. Got it?!"

(sheesh)

[moose2004]

I'm talking about temporarily helping people out, nothing more. I support President Bush's new energy law, and I believe it will work in the long run, although I was disappointmented Congress failed to approve even limited drilling in ANWR. One more thing, come this winter I can easily see the dems and the MSM trying to blame Republicans and the President for high prices of home heating oil. You can bet there will be plenty of MSM cameras in livingroom after livingroom this winter depicting families who cannot afford to heat their homes. Politically we better get in front of this issue now.

[Cobra64]

And what do we do with our highways, let them degrade?

Do you series believe that's where the money goes?

[jos65]

Instead of wasting our intellectual energy on impractical solutions let's get our Government to allow private industry to build refineries and to explore for oil. Get Mexico to build refineries close to the border and pipe refined gasoline into the US.

What can be done to adopt the principles you have laid out? Probably nothing,because it make sense, something that doesn't survive in Washington.

Nice post.

Thanks

[Apercu]

There are many ways to alleviate the cost of energy.Don't forget state taxes. The reformulation process needs to be cut down to a winter & summer blend for the entire U.S. - not the "umpteen" different blends required by the EPA (Get rid of MTBE - more expensive & harmful to the environment than it is worth.) Drill, drill, drill where it is geologically promising.Suspend the reams of Federal/state regulations that have made it impossible to drill & start building refineries/nuclear power plants. (We also have enough coal in this country to be energy independent - coal gasification/liquification technology has been around since before WWII.)

[moose2004]

We should be drilling in ANWR.

[jpl]

While what you suggest most likely will not happen, I've always felt that gasoline taxes (whether at the federal level or the state level) were some of the most regressive taxes on the books, with the working poor being the most affected. If liberals really supported the working poor and middle classes as much as they claim to, they would really hammer on this. But of course we know that their real goal is to collect as much tax revenue for the state as humanly possible.

[JoeSixPack1]

Nothing wrong with capitalism. But there is a lot wrong with inflating prices because of political winds.

Or do you just like being taken advantage of at the pump because some jerkwad in Cyprus decides his profit magin is the best way to control his political enemies?

Use your head!