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Congress Should Vote To Temporarily Rescind the Federal Tax On Gasoline.
8/22/05 | moose2004

Posted on 08/22/2005 11:07:12 AM PDT by moose2004

Gas Prices Are Too High, And Home Heating Oil Is Next.


TOPICS: Government; Philosophy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 109th; congress; gasprices; gastax; gastaxes; yetanothervanity
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To: moose2004

Won't happen.


21 posted on 08/22/2005 11:19:42 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: moose2004

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.


22 posted on 08/22/2005 11:20:19 AM PDT by JBR34 (I paid my taxes and I want them back)
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To: NC28203

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!


23 posted on 08/22/2005 11:20:36 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Clock King

You almost made sense till your last sentence.


24 posted on 08/22/2005 11:22:23 AM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: moose2004

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!


25 posted on 08/22/2005 11:23:17 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Redwarrior

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!


26 posted on 08/22/2005 11:23:35 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: newgeezer

Not again! Rolling my eyes.


27 posted on 08/22/2005 11:23:57 AM PDT by biblewonk (A house of cards built on Matt 16:18)
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To: Polyxene

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


28 posted on 08/22/2005 11:27:27 AM PDT by paradoxical
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To: Mr. Lucky

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


30 posted on 08/22/2005 11:31:56 AM PDT by Cobra64
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To: JoeSixPack1

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.


31 posted on 08/22/2005 11:33:24 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: Baynative
 
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"

!

 

32 posted on 08/22/2005 11:33:59 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Liberals believe common sense facts are open to debate!)
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To: Redwarrior
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)

33 posted on 08/22/2005 11:34:11 AM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Mr. Lucky

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.


34 posted on 08/22/2005 11:34:57 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Redwarrior
And what do we do with our highways, let them degrade?

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

35 posted on 08/22/2005 11:35:43 AM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Redwarrior
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

36 posted on 08/22/2005 11:35:48 AM PDT by jos65
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To: moose2004
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.)
37 posted on 08/22/2005 11:35:53 AM PDT by Apercu ("Res ipsa loquitor")
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To: Redwarrior

We should be drilling in ANWR.


38 posted on 08/22/2005 11:38:05 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: moose2004

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.


39 posted on 08/22/2005 11:39:22 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Aggie Mama

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!


40 posted on 08/22/2005 11:39:47 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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