Comments on: Story of the Year: Gas Prices

By: long

long — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:52:50 +0000

gas these days is too much money!

By: D. Long

D. Long — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:44:22 +0000

Oh yeah - an artificial tax to keep gas at $3. Just great. Does that mean that Hawaiians will get a rebate? And with all that tax money coming in, where do you think it will go? And when the price of gas NATURALLY gets back to $3 and that tax isn't bringing in the revenue, what do you think will happen with all those people who were RECEIVING those tax receipts? More taxes is not the answer.

The carrot has always worked better than the stick. When you subsidize something, you get more of it. Applying this to alternative energy producers and keeping politics OUT of it (so that the 'corn lobby' doesn't muscle out those who could produce ethanol form sawgrass or other sources) is key.

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:42:25 +0000

If environmental degradation and high oil company profits bother you — and they bother me too — then high prices at the pump are what you want to see. The most effective way to ruin the oil business and drive people to cleaner alternatives is higher gasoline prices. Gasoline should be kept above $3/gallon permanently, by higher taxes if necessary, to allow alternatives (of which there are many) to gain ground. Yes, it is as simple as that.

By: Shaun Shelley

Shaun Shelley — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:35:15 +0000

Are you nuts ? Another tax? Why doesn’t the government do something about the out of control profits of the oil companies? Because most of them are being paid by the lobbyists not to. Big oil and Wallstreet are raking in billions off the backs of the the working class and don’t do anything to help the environment. Why should we pay for their million dollar bonuses? We all can thank Ronald Regan for some of this mess because he stopped all the energy conservation programs that Jimmy Carter started.Regans main supporter was of course “Big Oil”