Came across this excerpt from Gore's book. I totally agree with it:
<<"higher taxes on fossil fuels...is one of the logical first steps in changing our policies in a manner consistent with a more responsible approach to the environment."
from Al Gore's radical environmental manifesto, Earth in the Balance, pg. 173>>
Except I think that this is not "radical", or is "radical" only in this loony philistine country. We SHOULD be taxing gasoline and lowering other taxes correspondingly, as a way to shape national energy consumption.
See:
A Nation of Oil Addicts
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday , March 17, 2000 ; A27, Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
<<What to do? Some Republicans have decided to take a whack at Clinton's 4.3 cents-a-gallon gas tax. Oh, the courage. Aside from the fact that repeal, literally, won't make a dime's worth of difference at the pump, it betrays a total misapprehension of the problem. The reason we are in our current state is not high, but low gas taxes.>>.
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By the way, I think, along with George Kennan (see his book, "Around the Cragged Hill"), that Americans suffer from two great national addictions: the automobile and the television. |
