maartena
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Orange, CA
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| reply to JeedaiKnight
Re: Once a tax...
You're absolutely right. In the country I grew up in they announced a 25 cent (in dutch guilders, about $0.12) increase on the fuel prices over a period of 10 years after which it would be taken away. The deal was that in those 10 years, drastic improvements for the freeway system would be paid for. That happenend, new freeways were opened up, existing ones were widened, tunnels and bridges were built, etc, etc.
But the 10 years were over in 2002 or so, and did they give back the 25 cents? Of course not! Now they had gotten so used to the extra income in the books - whether they had more freeway expansion plans or not - and the fuel prices never dropped the extra 25 cents.
And with fuel prices averaging between $5 and $6 per gallon (yeah, you Americans have no idea how CHEAP fuel is here), the extra 25 cents (now about 0.10 Eurocents) would have been a very welcome relief for drivers..... BUT they just had to keep that money in their pockets.
Its the same in every country. Once they instate a tax, its gonna take a lot of effort to cancel the tax, if ever cancelled at all.....
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NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX | Your gas prices are a result of Taxes not market conditions. Take away the taxes and we pay more.
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pnh102
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said by maartena  :(yeah, you Americans have no idea how CHEAP fuel is here) You seem to be saying this as if its a bad thing. Is it wrong to want a cheap, stable, non-terrorist supporting source of fuel?
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kamm
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Brooklyn, NY
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| said by pnh102 :said by maartena :(yeah, you Americans have no idea how CHEAP fuel is here) You seem to be saying this as if its a bad thing. Is it wrong to want a cheap, stable, non-terrorist supporting source of fuel? Umm, yes, it is wrong to want a not-so-cheap oil, supporting not only the crazy rich oil industry but totalitarian, supressive, medieval-age styled emirates and half-retarded princesses' dictatorships, especially licking their Arab @sses by our lunatic and/or corrupt Presidents and calling them friends of us. |
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