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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian P. who wrote (16210)	3/22/2000 11:48:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well Brian, perhaps I am being a bit rough on you. And you're not as hypocritical as the rest of the examples I gave. But it does look like (on the surface, using your criteria) that I care more about the environment than you. Since my Honda gets better gas mileage and probably pollutes less than your vehicle. The point I am making with all this is to demonstrate the relative nature of the way in which you're thinking. You view SUV's as gas hogs which pollute the environment, eat too much gas, and are safety hazards primarily because you don't drive one. I could just as easily make the same arguments regarding your transportational choice as related to mine. SUV's are currently meeting national guidelines regarding safety, mileage and emission standards. Changing the laws related to SUV emissions might be a sound thing to do. However, specifically selecting SUV's and differentiating them from light trucks seems silly to me. If we want to strengthen emission laws related to light trucks, then we should do it across the board. After all, many people do use SUV's as a working vehicle. If also appears your thoughts related to taxation are going through a metamorphosis. First you said this.... 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." Then I asked you this.. Brian, why don't you tell us what is an acceptable level of taxation with regard to gas at the pump? And you answered with this... Enough to get people to stop feeling it is quite necessary to drive ridiculous, expensive, enormous polluting several-tons-more-than-necessary SUV's back and forth to the supermarket. Then when I questioned you on what level of taxation would effect this change in behavior. You answered with this... I argue for a tax shift, not a net hike. One should also decry the endless, enormous highway and byway widening and furthering and building tax-payer pork-barrel boondoggle. Just thought that was interesting. Michael