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Old 03-03-2010, 12:04 PM
 
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This guy is out of touch. Not everyone lives in a city with a subway line, buses and bike lanes. Some of us have to drive. I agree we need to reduce our gas consumption, but this isn't the way to do it.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:04 PM
 
Location: MI
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MI already has high gas taxes. I doubt it will go that high also. With no jobs, gas won't be needed.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:05 PM
 
Location: SARASOTA, FLORIDA
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Is George Bush coming back?
He's the one that raised our gas to $4.00 a gallon

Actually that would be after Nancy Pelosi took control and promised to go after big oil.



One minute you post something bad that happened on Bush's watch and it's his fault, then you post anything that happens bad under Obama's watch as being Bush's fault. Which way do you want it?
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:09 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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MI already has high gas taxes. I doubt it will go that high also. With no jobs, gas won't be needed.
Well, TX has relatively high gas taxes, but the state government is using more ways to mint money... privatize roads and charge toll.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:10 PM
 
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Nancy PROMISED (4 years ago now) us she was going after those mean nasty 2% profit big oil companies.
I remember that lie. her faced formed a new wrinkle in the process of telling that lie.

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Oh, I know, she has been working on HC and saying NO to everything all this time instead of working on real issues that effect Americans.

Call Nancy, maybe she forgot her promise to us all.
Nancy Pelosi - the Speaker of "No"
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:10 PM
 
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Depending on where you live that could be considered average or even short. Also in this economy there are loads of people who would see that as a non-issue.
Then move or accept the fact that the cost of a finite resource is going to go up.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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It's what America needs to force people onto Mass Transit but who was Prsident when it hit $5?
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:22 PM
 
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Then move or accept the fact that the cost of a finite resource is going to go up.

Yes it is a finite resource but the price increase will not be due to natural limits, that is what the controversy is over. Cripple our livelyhood for what? Some 'green' inititive? Total BS.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:22 PM
 
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If gasoline goes that high I will use a different mode of transportation. I won't have to pay for a driver's lisense, a license for my car/cars, collision insurance, liability insurance, uninsured motorist insurance, towing insurance, taxes for gasoline and oil, taxes for tires, taxes for a vehicle luxury of any kind. I won't have to worry about speeding tickets, tickets for not stopping at a stop sign or traffic signal, ticket for failure to yield right of way, or ticket for my windshield wipers not working. The only expense I will have is converting my garage to a barn and feeding my new horse. Oh yeah, I'll have more expense, I'll have the get the heel on those old cowboy's in the closet fixed.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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Do you believe in unregulated free market? If you do, why are you opposed to NAFTA?

I dont believe in an unregulated anything

the problem is republicans always want to remove all regulations which lead the theivery, and domcratc want to overregulate, which STIFFLES the economy
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