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To: tejek who wrote (629686)	9/27/2011 8:09:54 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

ted, I figured out today why you're getting screwed at the gasoline pump. Over the years, the breakup of the Rockefeller Standard Oil in 1911 has just about come full circle. Chevron and Gulf merged. Exxon and Mobile merged. Texaco and Chevron merged. BP and Amoco merged. Texaco and Shell got together and boarded up the Texaco stations around here. And others..... Guess which president approved the largest mergers? lol

To: tejek who wrote (629686)	10/6/2011 1:41:10 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576159

We don't need to collect more taxes, we need to spend less than planned for the future. A highest gas tax would only bring in a very small part of the federal government's current deficit and an even smaller portion of its extravagant promises for spending in the future. Fiscal responsibility is all about reigning in the cost of entitlements, everything else is marginal. Calling a lack of higher gasoline taxes "the heart of US economic decline" is silly for multiple reasons. Higher taxes are harmful to the economy not helpful, and even if they were helpful, higher gasoline taxes would be far too small of issue to be the heart of any major change in the US economy. Also the US economy isn't in decline. (Although decline could start if the Democrat's vision of higher taxes and more regulation takes effect in a big way.)