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- From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby)
- Subject: Re: Emissions Inspections, is new really be
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.034226.22330@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan18.202556.18964@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan19.152719.4379@ncar.ucar.edu> <1jkb1jINN7vn@anthrax.solbourne.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:42:26 GMT
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- In article <1jkb1jINN7vn@anthrax.solbourne.com> kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski) writes:
- >While reading article <1993Jan19.152719.4379@ncar.ucar.edu>, I noticed that
- >chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu said the following:
- > >At some point the U.S. is going to need to make a shift away from cheap gas.
- >
- >Why? Just because European countries like to impose heinous taxes on their
- >citizens doesn't mean the U.S. has to. Higher gas taxes for increased
- >spending? How about lower spending? Now there's an idea...
- >
- I saw a breakdown of world gas prices in the Economist a couple of weeks ago.
- Apparently, percentage wise, the rest of the world doesn't charge that much
- more in taxes, rather the raw prices are quite a bit dearer.
-
- Anyway, the point is that when you go out in your car, you are very heavily
- subsidised--you are driving on extremely expensive roads and putting out ton's
- of pollution, and not paying the cost.
-
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