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Chances are that the price of fuel is going to go up, even without new taxes.
Yes it will, probably not b***s deep in a recession, then we will buy electric cars (my fingers are crossed the Volt does well, plan to buy one if the initial costs aren't too steep). Problem solved, crisis averted, no harm no foul. Raising the gas price rightnow will be extrordinarily harmful.
If they ever will manage to provide a public transportation net like it is very common in other counties with high gas prices, then people will maybe be able to to adjust to it. But for those people living somewhere out in the country, driving 50-100mls a day to work back and forth it will be under current conditions impossible to adjust to such high gas prices.
Also what is going to happen to all the prices for groceries etc? Haven't we seen an increase just last year when gas prices went up only to 3.50-4.00 a gallon?
And what about having some fun in your leisure time with hobbies like fishing, boating, off road fun? Nobody could afford anymore spending 200 or even more dollars a weekend just to go out on a lake or the sea for some fishing with a boat.
They better think twice about the consequences what such gas prices would have for the normal dude, the most of us. Not everyone is having a 6 or more digit income like maybe those people have it they would love to see $7 a gallon for gas.
So since it's going to be a "problem" anyway, why not unnecessarily make it a BIG "problem"?
Gotcha.
Nope. I didn't say that. I'm saying that if you think gas prices might become a problem for you, it wouldn't hurt to buy a more fuel-efficient vehicle the next time you buy a car. It's a prudent and responsible thing to do. You prepare for retirement knowing that the cost of living is undoubtedly going to go up; why not take the same approach with your form of transportation?
You can cry all you want, but some things are out of our control. No one should be caught off guard by higher gas prices, whether they're due to higher taxes or due to a decrease in oil production.
There's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees a right to cheap gas.
Context, my dear Finkie... Context... Look it up if you have to. Your response to my post - if one understands the context of it - makes exactly zero sense.
Fuel taxes, which is what this thread is about, are not "out of our control."
Well, good luck, then. I will continue to assume that, on average, the price of fuel will increase over time.
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