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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
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- Subject: Re: Emissions Inspections, is new really be
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.053306.10459@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:33:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.035851.8853@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <Jan20.190138.72275@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Jan20.190138.72275@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.colostate.edu writes:
- >
- >This country has the LOWEST gas prices of ANY other country.
- >Therefor, we really shouldn't complain about an increase in gas cost.
-
- So, in whichever state has the lowest burglary rate, those who are
- robbed shouldn't complain about being robbed?
-
- >Increasing the gas tax would provide extra funds for the government
- >to put into alternative energy research, newer, more economical and
- >environmentally friendly mass transit systems, etc....
-
- Mostly etc., I imagine; keep in mind that we're talking about the same
- governments that run RTD (as of about five years ago, the most recent
- year I have figures for, at a cost of about $4.50 per passenger-trip,
- or more expensively than it would be for Colorado taxpayers to purchase
- new Geo Metros for every daily bus-rider) and the Colorado Clean Air
- Program whose principal effect is to increase fuel consumption and
- pollution by requiring the use of oxygenated fuels that produce higher
- levels of some pollutants and decrease fuel efficiency by 10-20%.
-
- In order for the government to have any likelihood of using those funds
- effectively, in addition to implementing the new taxes, we'd also have
- to implement a new government.
-
- Trygve
-