BIKE: Article in WSJ regarding SUV gas mileage

[Patrick Goetz]

A far simpler and more effective solution would be a $1 per gallon 
federal gasoline tax, as suggested in this week's Time magazine.

Personally, I'm outraged that the Republicans are busily spending 133 
million dollars EVERY SINGLE DAY in Iraq helping terrorists to recruit 
new converts with absolutely no idea how they're going to pay for it. I 
suppose it's OK that they (Republicans) have decided to spend money to 
insure that there is a steady stream of terrorists around so that they 
can stay in power indefinitely, and although I'm personally opposed to 
killing children and other innocent bystanders in order to accomplish 
this goal, it's clear that these folks operate under a different system 
of morals than the ones I was raised with.  I do, however, insist that 
they exercise some small modicum of fiscal responsibility by having a 
plan for paying for their shenanigans, and what better way than a 
gasoline tax which will also serve the strategic purpose of helping to 
reduce our dependence on middle eastern oil by encouraging conservation 
and more efficient travel?




Michael O'Shea wrote:
> The WSJ story...
> 
> Well-Oiled SUV Owners
> 
> Try to Upend Fuel Rule
> 
> By STEPHEN POWER and KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
> 
> Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> 
> April 13, 2004; Page D3
> 
> 
> WASHINGTON -- Mary McLeod loves her Lincoln Aviator sport-utility 
> vehicle. So when a conservative Web site recently alerted her to a Bush 
> administration proposal that would encourage auto makers to reduce the 
> weight of their heaviest SUVs, she fired off an e-mail to the Department 
> of Transportation.
>
> 
> "This is America," wrote Ms. McLeod, a real-estate agent from Livonia, 
> Mich. "It's an American's right to drive a small car if they choose, 
> just as it's my right to drive an SUV if I choose."
>
>