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Irvine511 said:you know what?
i'm secretly excited about these high gas prices. i hope they go much higher.
if they don't, i'm going to demand a big-assed gas tax. only now do we have consumers whining enough to finally jump-start the new, greener technologies everyone says they want, but never really demand. i'm glad that our car-obsessed culture is finally waking up to the fact that, hello, things have a cost. i know it's always difficult when reality intrudes on our sacred lifestyle, but the only way people will stop using SUVs and buidling more sprawling exurbs is when they actually have to pay for their ecological destruction and energy inefficiency.
and before people get mad at me because i have a car-free lifestyle, let me remind you that i pay for this lifestyle, dearly, in what i do pay for public transportation (less than you pay for gas, i'm sure, but it's hardly free, probably $20 over 10 days) as well as the astronomical COLA in a big, east coast city.
i have to pay for my lifestyle, those living in suburban sprawl who drive tanks to work should have to pay for theirs.
couldnt have said it better myself
my energy provider secures that we get no imported nuclear energy. i like that. we have many water plants.
anyway i dont want gas prices to rise, lotsa people use gas for heating, this would hit them too
instead, heavy drivers should have to pay their ass off for what they do to my lungs and to the environment
with all the correctness Americans have established regarding smoking, they should take care of that