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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (142723)	12/18/2010 1:52:17 PM
From: CommanderCricket	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206183

Bob, You can't feed government with new gasoline taxes and then expect government not to grow. My thought is that instead of gasoline taxes at the retail level, we should tax imported crude and let the domestic producers do what they do. Imported petroleum by my definition would be any crude imported outside of NAFTA. Mexican and Canadian crude would be exempt. Agree with you though, price has to go up in order to incentivize conservation and other substitutes.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (142723)	12/18/2010 2:50:34 PM
From: not_prudent	4 Recommendations Respond to of 206183

"Instead of allowing a free people to make the economic decisions they deem in their best interests we get all kinds of crap that simply grows government." You know, if we lived in a perfect world where the general population could make intelligent, rational choices then I'd agree with you. Hell, it would all be so easy then and if that were the world, who would need government? But we both know that isn't the case. My post was only intended to point out that someone has decided to beat the dead horse that Matt Simmons beat to death again and again. Obviously there's money to be made in pointing out that which has become obvious to anyone with a slightly more than room temperature IQ. It wasn't intended to start something political.