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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Axxel who wrote (15483)	11/21/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

[if I were sovereign King of California] I would personally amend your gas tax scheme to be flat, not progressive. Say an even $3/gal to put us in line with import-only economies like central europe or Japan. I would be frankly amazed if price pressure alone would cut national petroleum use in half. Let's not forget that private autos are only a piece of the pie. Trucks? Diesel trains? Jetliners?! Power stations, a lot of which burn petroleum? Does anybody know/remember what the oil price shock of '73 did to petroleum consumption? Would it be reasonable to assume the effect could be scalable?