"Pump prices are climbing.... gasoline, averaged nationwide, rose to $2.627 a gallon."
And locally:
"The average price for a gallon of gas in Massachusetts rose 8 cents to $2.60 in the latest AAA weekly survey, AAA Southern New England said. It was the 10th consecutive week that the Massachusetts average for a gallon of self-serve, regular unleaded gas increased, AAA said."
Related: MSM Monitor Burp
And yet this AGENDA-PUSHING JERK has the gall to opine this?
"The main reason to raise the gas tax" by Eric Grunebaum | May 25, 2009
The sales tax - are simply not enough....
Type "sales tax" into my blog search, see what comes up, and scroll.
Absent from the debate is the compelling environmental argument for a hike in the gas tax....
Pfffffffttt!
See: The Boston Globe Cuts the Cheese
The Other Global Warming Conference
Looking at the evidence for climate change - and its dire consequences - it's clear that we need to get serious about weaning ourselves from our CO2-emitting, petroleum-based economy.
When the ELITERS and the ROCK STARS STOP JETTING and LIMOING then we can talk; otherwise, STFU!!!!!!!
Already in evidence is faster-than-expected melting of the polar ice cap, an incipient rise in sea levels, and increasingly destructive storms, droughts, and heat waves, with more serious consequences likely to follow.
Yeah, even though the ice is expanding at both poles, 'eh?
Meanwhile we're spending vast treasures buying oil from largely hostile nations....
Look at him even work in the "terror" lie! (Blog editor just shaking his head)
In April, the Globe itself endorsed removing the sales tax exemption for gas, which equates to about a dime a gallon. At a minimum, we need the 19-cent increase and the $500 million it would raise for the transportation system.
So TAXPAYERS can PAY OFF BANKS!!!!!
However, we need the increased gas tax not just to provide a dedicated source of funding to fix crumbling infrastructure, not just to create jobs, and not just to rescue our public transportation authority. What we need it for above all else is to encourage the move toward more efficient cars, hybrids, and plug-in electrics. And we need the gas tax hike, not just to prevent layoffs and service cutbacks, but to make public transportation and trains more attractive relative to driving, and to increase transit availability. Based on last summer's gas prices, it's clear that people do adjust to sustained price signals.
We also need the gas tax to encourage people to bicycle and to fund design work so that we can unlock federal dollars for more bikeways. Eighty million dollars of federal funds for these projects, which Massachusetts has left on the table, may soon be forfeited. Similarly, we're behind the Midwest and California on high-speed rail. As with bikeways, our lack of planning may cost us a share of $8 billion in federal subsidies, which could help us move to a less auto-centric future.
We aren't even spending what we are getting and he wants more?
WhereTF is ALL THIS MONEY GOING?
While the wisdom of the Big Dig can be debated, it's a done deal and the bill is due....
Translation: PAY OFF the BANKS!!! Please see: The Big Pit
But let's recognize that all corners of the state do share in the Big Dig's benefits, if not directly while driving to the airport and hospitals or while taking part in the city's commerce or culture, then certainly in the lifting of the state's broader fortunes....
NOT ME!!! That has been NOTHJING but a DRAIN!!
Screw you and the AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE, guy!!!!
Despite its green credentials, the Northeast is the seventh largest producer of CO2, when compared with the world's largest nations....
Yeah, I've been becoming aware of that hypocritically smug New England superiority complex.
We are well-poised to create more green jobs, reduce our environmental impact, and keep advancing our leadership position. But we have a long way to go.
Right: The Power of Green
Yes, we need additional revenue from the sales tax to maintain services. And yes we need reform, transparency, and less redundancy in our transportation bureaucracy. But what we need above all else is the political will to use the tools available only to our government to give us a nudge in the right direction. And the gas tax hike is precisely the nudge we need.
Sort of like 9/11 was the "nudge" to bring "freedom and democracy" to the Middle East, right?
Wouldn't you know it? One more agenda-pushing jew on the Globe's ops page.
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Also see: What Is Wrong With Hollywood
