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Old 01-21-2006, 12:01   #7 (permalink)
WindsorFox
 
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Re: idle thought on gasoline/fuel taxes

walt peifer wrote:
> remember when unleaded fuel first cam out? You could stick an unleaded
> nozzle in a leaded fuel car but you couldn't pump leaded fuel into an
> unleaded vehicle.
>
> could we do something like that again? suppose that the restrictor plate in
> the gas tank is sized according to fuel mileage? I.E. as the mileage gets
> worse the hole gets smaller. And the pumps at the gas station were also
> sized accordingly, so that all current vehicles and 2007 models that get
> better than 30mpg pay the current $2.35 per gallon those that got between 15
> and 30 paid 2,35 plus say a dollar tax making the fuel $3.35 and those
> vehicles getting less than 15 mpg paid say $4.35 and the pumps ran slower.



What a bunny hugger. The people that drive F550's to deliver the
furniture to your house, and the fish to your grocer should throw you in
the back of their refrigerated truck and leave you there.


--
"Why do you
insist on putting up with this piece of crap?"

Why?

Because, as I drove away, I shifted out of 2nd gear at 60. That's why.

dwight
www.tfrog93.com



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