Jay Honeck wrote:

Think taxes. There are people (waaaay too many) that think gas
should be taxed so that it costs a "more reasonable" price at the
pump (i.e., the insane prices in other countries).

hmm. what is insane about it? so you are in need to be conservative about
spending gas (or have a good income) and you are more likely willed to
search for alternatives.


Okay -- let's follow that train for a moment.

Europe has been subjected to insane fuel prices (thanks to
over-taxation) for a generation.

Other than governments grown fat and wasteful, what good has come of
it? Where are all the "alternative fuels" that you
environmentally-aware Europeans have "discovered" simply because you
artificially (and, apparently, proudly) paid a fortune for oil-based
fuels?

The answer is: There aren't any. The closest you've come is diesel,
and THAT is an alternative fuel ONLY because your governments haven't
taxed it as much.

And they have paid a high environmental price for its use. This is now
being addressed finally (and the company I work for is immensely
grateful!), but it will take time to get diesels as clean as gasoline
engines have been for a decade or so now.

Matt