Originally posted by sigma:
When did I ever say that it would be the same for everyone. I said that I would pay $15 more. I never said you would. So pull your head out of your own ass.

Of course it would be different for everyone else; but I would say that I drive at or above the average -- pumping ~60 gallons a month. At an average of 25 MPG that's 1,500 miles per month -- dead on the average mileage -- would yeild an increase of $15/month.

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WOULD YOU PLEASE PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUM AND REALIZE THAT FIGURE IS DRASTICALLY HIGHER FOR OTHER CITIZENS!



Drastically higher?

I want to see your math on this.

Even if you drove a whopping 3,000 miles per month at an average of 25MPG you would still only pay $30/month for a 25/c tax increase.

Yeah, that's sooooo drastic. A whole $15 more.

For a very small minority of people, 50 cents a day could mean a lot. I concede that. But those are the exact same people that would be first to take advantage of alternative modes of transportation if they were made available to them. Otherwise they're really going to be screwed when the gas prices climb high on their own, they can no longer afford to drive, and there's no alternatives for them because no one thought to invest in it years before.



I am one of those people with the drasticly higher gas bills than you. Last month I used about 130 gallons of gas in my tour so at your $.25 tax per gallon I would be paying an extra $32.50 a month (based on last months bill) But if this was going to (noticeably) improve roads and public transportation I would be happy to pay it.

Where I live and work public transportation is not an option at this current time because of my working hours. My dad has taken public transportation for most of the last 20+ years into work. He has to drive 15 mins to get to the train station and then has about a 2 hour trip into the office from there.

Over the last 3.5 years I would have paid $1345.45 if I was taxed at an extra $.25 a gallon.

Right now I dont like the way prices are rising but the only way I see to get them to drop is if everybody would drive less and use less gas. To do this we need to have some sort of good alturinatives to car use. With current gas prices we can drive most places cheaper than we could get there any other way.

Yes an additioal gas tax would hit the shipping industry (USPS, Fexex, UPS, other shippers) and they will pass it on to consumers in the form of higher prices (as will stores) so I think this would lead to people buying things from closer to home instead of getting things that have been shipped from across the contry so I am not sure if this would be good or bad.

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