[moose2004]

The federal government collects $.184 cents for every gallon of gasoline pumped in the US, which amounts to over $50 billion dollars a year in revenue. Congress should vote ASAP to temporarily rescind this tax. State governments who can afford to should follow suit, but this will be difficult for most of them as State taxes on gasoline are one of their prime sources of revenue. While this suggestion is by no means a solution to the problem of rising oil prices, it could help to temporaily alleviate some of the pain we are all feeling at the pump. Also, with winter right around the corner, those of us who heat their homes with oil are going to get hit twice as hard.

[oldleft]

Needs a vanity tag.

[Kurt_D]

Well... I would love to see less taxes, but... now it's time to focuse on cutting spending. The problem here is that congress is unwilling to curb spending!

[newgeezer]

ping

[ItsOurTimeNow]

True, that might work.

But, the American people can also do their part and actually conserve. You know, make do with less? I know it's a concept that hasn't largely been advocated for decades, but it just might work.

[Let's Roll]

Of course they should but they would rather hold their biennial hearings on price fixing by BIG OIL - you know, the "investigation" that never results in anything except headlines and tv face time.

[BigTex5]

Living in Texas myself, I've often wondered why people up north use oil to heat their homes. What is the difference between using natural gas (like we do) and oil up there?

[Mr. Lucky]

Is there any other aspect of the law of supply and demand you would like Congress to repeal?

[thoughtomator]

Junkies should temporarily stop getting their fixes too.

[Mike Darancette]

Fuel oil not gasoline.

[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.

[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!

[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.)

[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.

[MEGoody]

That would be great, but it isn't going to happen.

[Roos_Girl]

To all who complain about gas prices being so high. Do you buy products made in China or the USA? I know there's not always a USA made alternative, but do you spend the extra buck to buy American made products when you can? If not, no complaining about the gas prices! You are contributing to China's need for more production capabilities and therefore the increased demand for oil/gas. And, as we all know, with limited supply, as demand goes up, so do prices.

[ElRushbo]

John Kerry criticized Bush repeatedly during the election that it was irresponsible for Bush to be adding to the strategic oil reserves at $40 a barrel. Bush said it isn't the duty of a president be be a speculator in commodity markets. I emailed Kerry at this time and instructed him how he could sell short oil futures contracts if he was so sure the price was going down.

[Mister Baredog]

In CA the state adds $.24 plus 8.25% sales tax on top of the $.18 federal.

[sandydipper]

When pigs fly!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Forget about it. I like well-maintained roads.