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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 434861" data-attributes="member: 14668">We are facing something like a $10 trillion federal deficit.&nbsp;The best way to attack that deficit...instead of handing it off to our grandchildren....would be to create an immediate $1 per gallon federal tax on gasoline, to be applied directly towards the deficit.&nbsp;$1 a gallon tax means we pay around $3 at the pump, which is about $1 less than we were paying over the summer.&nbsp;To a large extent it is a voluntary tax. If you want to pay less....drive less, or choose a fuel-efficient car.&nbsp;Whatever happens, I hope we Americans have finally taken to heart the lesson we should have learned in 1974, again in 1980, or again earlier this year; its time to start making rational and sustainable choices about the vehicles we choose to drive. Its time to recognize that there is only so much oil on the planet, and once we burn it up it will all be gone. Its time to recognize that when we choose to import oil from the Middle East we are paying money to the very people who are trying to destroy us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 434861, member: 14668"] We are facing something like a $10 trillion federal deficit. The best way to attack that deficit...instead of handing it off to our grandchildren....would be to create an immediate $1 per gallon federal tax on gasoline, to be applied directly towards the deficit. $1 a gallon tax means we pay around $3 at the pump, which is about $1 less than we were paying over the summer. To a large extent it is a voluntary tax. If you want to pay less....drive less, or choose a fuel-efficient car. Whatever happens, I hope we Americans have finally taken to heart the lesson we should have learned in 1974, again in 1980, or again earlier this year; its time to start making rational and sustainable choices about the vehicles we choose to drive. Its time to recognize that there is only so much oil on the planet, and once we burn it up it will all be gone. Its time to recognize that when we choose to import oil from the Middle East we are paying money to the very people who are trying to destroy us. [/QUOTE]

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