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To: grusum who wrote (7581)	1/26/2012 6:21:56 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

<<<<so you'd raise gas prices on everyone> Yessss, and why is that NOT conservative. I would take that money to pay down our national debt - but you see that's the difference between a real fiscal conservative and people like Newt and Romney. Some how you have to increase revenue as well as shrink spending. Bush promised that his tax cut would raise more money so that the debt would be paid down - well how did that work out? Increasing gas prices pushes people towards using more economical cars, use public transportation. It will lesson our dependence on ME oil and make us more efficient. These are good things. As a benefit, we move in the right direction on GW and our health. Are any of these bad things? Of course not. AND if you want to drive your stinking Hummer - you still can. It is penalizing oil companies only if you don't believe in capitalism. Capitalism - to be true - has to somehow account for the environmental cost. It doesn't do that now.