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Re: idle thought on gasoline/fuel taxes
"walt peifer" <lensman@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Subject: idle thought on gasoline/fuel taxes
> From: "walt peifer" <lensman@tampabay.rr.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang
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> 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. so that a guy with an
> expedition had to take say 30 minutes to pump his 30 gallons of gas.
Better that shortsighted thought is argued here than on the floor of some
state legislature.
Walt, I suggest that you do a little research into what happens when
government meddles in the free market, or tries to artificially tilt it.
The ONLY result is that some get screwed.. often those who can least
afford it.. and some get rich. Usually the list includes lawyers and
accountants.
On the other hand, it WOULD make for a lot of job creation... jobs that
add nothing to actual PRODUCTIVITY!
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Yeh, I'm a Krusty old Geezer, putting up with my 'smartass' is the price
you pay..DEAL with it!
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