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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:15:20 -0500, (T 35) wrote:
>No i'm sorry to say that I will not going any where this spring or
>summer. Unless the gas prices go down a lot. This is a tragedy. The
>government would let these gas prices get so high. The government could
>lower or even drop the taxes on the gas. I just can't believe that the
>government would even think about putting taxes on something that people
>need to live on. We need gas to heat our homes and to drive to work.
>btw, If we did not work we could not support our families or our
>government. If we do not work uncle Sam gets no taxes. People all across
>the nation should have a sit down. Every one stay home for a week. That
>will wake the oil companies up along with the government. And yes
>America it can be done. Think about it. If every one stayed home for a
>week not one person would earn a single dollar. nor would the government
>or the oil companies. And it can be done if the nation would stick
>together and do it.. Thank you.
Sorry dudes, but gas has been taxed at a much higher rate in other
nations, ever since the last energy crisis in the early seventies, to
curb consumption and the resulting effects on society.
Europe does it and Canada does it, and our resulting growth and
consumption patterns for the past thirty years have been substantially
different from the US.
I've known that the cost of energy would _have_ go back up eventually,
and have deliberately chosen over the years to drive small cars and
structure my life in antiicipation of that (I didn't need a truck or
an SUV.... why pay for it?) Not to mention I could spend the money
elsewhere...
This will serve as the incentive I need to get my fellow shareholders
in my older co-operative apartment building to invest in some new
now-available energy conservation technologies (two button flush
toilets, the photovoltaic array on the roof, finishing the building
envelope tightening program)
I'll be out there on my bike with my "O cents/km" Tshirt.
I'm afraid my attitude is "suck up and deal, you'll be better for it",
as I set out to do some practical things to help my lower income
co-owners find some solutions.
Shirley Hicks
Toronto, Ontario
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