David Honig wrote:
At 09:48 AM 9/25/01 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
David Honig wrote:
The market is fair: just let the price of gas be established by a free market. Then everyone can decide whether they want a 1000 lb, 300 hp car or a 3000 lb, 100 hp car, or something in between.
Exactly -- if we get rid of all the gov't subsidies for oil, we find that gas is about $10 @ gallon here and now. And that
What subsidies? They tax the hell out of it (e.g., petrol here in the US, even worse in UK).
If you're counting US military involvement overseas, well, we can do without that and pay more (temporarily, until supply increases) for the oil we replace that oil with. If you think the US subsidizes oil companies, you need to look at how much taxes they pay.
Take a look at these sites -- I think the evidence is fairly clear that there are a lot of subsidies to big oil. The military is only one, although it's huge. You could easily make a case that all the expenses related to WTC are subsidies for the oil industry. But besides that: http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm also: http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-9-95/oilsubsidy.html http://www.greenpeace.org/majordomo/index-press-releases/1998/msg00183.html (yeah, you probably won't like that source, but read it anyway) -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 hseaver@cybershamanix.com http://www.cybershamanix.com/resume.html