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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (324174)2/1/2007 5:47:04 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576346
 
If they already impose a handicap (by having high energy taxes), that doesn't mean that "leveling the playing field" by imposing an equivalent handicap on ourselves, isn't imposing a handicap on ourselves.

Also many of these countries do import cheap oil from the ME. They handicap themselves by taxes, but presumably that money isn't a 100% dead weight loss. If we strive to not import any oil, and use more expensive energy from the US, then the additional cost is a dead weight loss.
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