"I'm sick of people whining about a lousy 50-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline! I think its time has come, and I call on all non-wussy politicians to stand with me, because our country needs us."Amen.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Signs of the Apocolypse
Well kinda. Click and Clack are pretty smart guys, but having the Car Talk guys advocate a 50 cent gas tax has to count for something right?
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its definately good seeing this come from car people
i saw a news video recently in a similar fashion, where a road builder was saying the US needed to invest more in mass transit for this upcoming infrastructure spending.
The 50-cent fuel tax is not a new idea, but coming from auto-oriented people gets one's attention. I remember being pleasantly surprised in 1990, when the Blue Line light rail from Long Beach to LA opened, and the Auto Club (AAA) recommended taking the train to a downtown LA event. This was after years of "no on transit" propaganda coming from Auto Club publications. The LA Times for years had a negative attitude, going all the way back to torpedoing a plan to elevate the Pacific Electric tracks from the San Gabriel Valley and the Long Beach area back in 1925. One rumor had it that the Times received a lot of ad revenue from car dealers and didn't want to help the "competition". Now the Times is all for rail projects. So it looks like a lot of sinners are "getting religion". Hallelujah!
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