"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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In article .com,
Joe wrote:

Gilligan wrote:
http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...A-SPAT-DC.html

Baby Hugo is a wacko.

Anyone who buys Citco gasoline is putting money in his pocket.
We have one down the street, Regular is 2.07 but right across the
street Exxon Mobil is 2.09.

They are always 2 - 3 cents cheaper so they can suck in the dumb ****s
to stupid to know any better.

We should be paying $5/gallon.

Why? So the working poor will not be able to get to work? So those
without
the means to buy gasoline to fuel their cheap, older, but consumptive
vehicles will become completely insolvent, rather than just partially so?
So your Yugo will be vindicated?

So those who can afford to pay it will be forced to pay it. There
should be exemptions for the poor and for those who drive for a
living.

I, you, and most of the people on this ng can afford to pay
$5/gallon.

I know, it's a bummer. :-)

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So when you gas up to you force the attendent to keep the excess you
voluntarily pay ($5.00/gallon) or do you send a check to the oil company at
the end of the year? If enough people wanted it, gas stations could raise
the price to $5.00/ gallon and save the government the trouble of
legislating it.

I can easily afford to pay $5.00 a gallon. The question is how many gallons
can I afford to buy?

There will never be excess taxes on gasoline. The government wants to
maximize gas tax revenue, not minimize gas consumption. The same with
cigarettes. There is way too much tax revenue to actually want to outlaw
smoking.

There cure all is to tax leisure time. Americans have too much of it. If
people spent more time working they wouldn't have lifestyles of excess
consumption. Of course income would have to be reduced accordingly,
preferably through taxation.