nytimes.com - 12/27/2008
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If the Obama administration is to meet its twin objectives of reducing the consumption of foreign oil and cutting emissions, it needs to curb the nation’s demand for energy. >
weeklystandard.com - 12/27/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
A once-in-a-generation chance. by Charles Krauthammer 01/05/2009, Volume
014, Issue 16...
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The Net-Zero Gas Tax
eschatonblog.com - 12/29/2008
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eschatonblog.com —
The advantage of a gas tax is that
is does line up prices more closely with actual...
cost, due to various externalities, and that by putting the money towards SUPERTRAINS and other transit improvements the costs of a regressive tax can be turned into ...
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Gas Tax
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I’m not the only one...
QandO —
... The New York Times has an editorial up about raising the gas tax considerably with offsetting "tax credits to protect vulnerable segments of the population," and Charles Krauthammer at the Weekly Standard has ...
Gas Or Carbon?
Matthew Yglesias —
... I think a substantial phased increase in the federal gasoline tax of the sort called for by The New York Times would have been great, forward-thinking policy if adopted 20 years ago. And if I were, say, appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat I’d certainly be willing to vote for one. But given what we’ve learned about the risks of catastrophic climate change, it also seems like a concept that’s been somewhat overtaken by events. A carbon tax, or a cap on greenhouse gas emissions with auctioned permits, would constitute a tax on gasoline among other ...
Raymond J. Learsy: The New York Times Wrong-Headedly Propagandizes for an Obama Gasoline Tax
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In quick succession over this past weekend, the New York Times brought out its heavy guns to militate for a national gasoline tax. First an editorial in Saturday's paper "The Gas Tax," and Friedman's Op-ed the next day, " ...
The Times' Gas Pains
The American Spectator —
... The problem, according to a recent Times editorial,
is that "President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrats in
Congress seem to have a clear vision of the auto industry they
think the country needs," i.e., car companies that produce
"highly fuel-efficient, next-generation vehicles." But the
American public might not buy those government-commanded vehicles
if gasoline is too cheap. ...
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