NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

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On Apr 26, 1:37 pm, kontiki wrote:

. On top of that, the BIGGEST benefactor
odf rising gas prices IS government. Federal and state governments
make more off a gallon gass through taxes than the oil companies do.

Huh? I see tax stickers on a per gallon basis. This is not affected
by the price itself.

Unless of course the price gets high and the use of gas therefore
drops, in which case the tax collected also decreases.
IIRC, this was actually the case during the '73 gas crunch.

The taxes are likely higher than the profit.

By about 3-4:1

The oil companies don't
have to pay for the roads.
If you've followed the thread, the governemtn doesn't either. The majority
of fuel taxes, both state and federal, goes into the general fund, and that
which does get spent on roads goes for pork barell project.

I've seen a mile of one lane on a four lane road cost well over $2 million
and take nearly a year to merely resurface. Recall the recent Alaska "Bridge
to Nowhere", or all the pork projects in Senator whatshisface in West
Virginia, the mass transit fiascos all over the country...

I'm sure others can offer similar "horror stories".