tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post6360400846251857597..comments2024-03-03T12:52:18.548-05:00Comments on Magpie Musing: Gas and TaxesMagpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-38201154551239380832012-04-25T11:09:10.301-04:002012-04-25T11:09:10.301-04:00We're paying $1.34C per litre (4 to a gallon) ...We're paying $1.34C per litre (4 to a gallon) in Ontario just now. Not quite up to Ghana prices, but close. Probable rise for summer consumption might be $.20 more. Gov't taxes count for a good bit of that price.<br />This is not stopping a single soul from leaping into the vehicle and taking off. Including me, as I live a half hour drive from the nearest grocery store. <br />Escaping gas dependency is going to take a lot, probably a generation or more away, I think.MARY Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178370815712313585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-50743736870702453852012-04-20T18:10:18.962-04:002012-04-20T18:10:18.962-04:00You would think gas would be a deterrent, but I am...You would think gas would be a deterrent, but I am not so sure. In Ghana, here Gas costs 6 US dollars a gallon. It still doesnt stop people from using SUVs or driving more because its convenient and well. We as humans just have a tendency to be selfish and like to do things that are more convenient for us than mankind.Cordie Aziz Nashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04854857444562734859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-84685991602472098602012-04-19T13:53:04.228-04:002012-04-19T13:53:04.228-04:00We should definitely multiply the taxes on alcohol...We should definitely multiply the taxes on alcohol to 100 times the current cost. That way, people won't make the terrible choices they do. They will make better decisions and we will be bettering them.<br />Also the government will have more money in its coffers and that will "solve the tax problems". Further the bigger the government the more it knows to spend it so wisely. <br />We will certainly make sure to trim the deficit then. And I can make a better argument than Thaler's on this one--because then everyone will sober up and realize that we really are going to be at taxarmaggedon--or whatever the NY Times is calling it these days.<br /><br />Higher taxes are never better on any front. There has NEVER been an example of how this has worked out well. <br />I am sure you love the Medicare system, social security, the post office etc.<br />P.S. There are people out there who can not afford to buy folding bicycles.HS BFFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-4956226096988114572012-04-18T23:21:08.588-04:002012-04-18T23:21:08.588-04:00Catch 22.
My kids ride the school bus (it's ...Catch 22. <br /><br />My kids ride the school bus (it's 2 1/2 miles to school), and if gas were $10/gallon, I guarantee that bus service would stop. The schools couldn't afford to pay for it. And there is no public bus that goes anywhere near the elementary school. So if there's no public bus, and there's no school bus, then parents like me will have to drive their kids. Which totally defeats the environmental argument...<br /><br />2 1/2 miles is not that far but I do live on a steep hill and it is winter here for 8 months of the year -- We could theoretically ride bikes, I guess, but I would have to accompany the kids. I'd never let my 8-year-old ride alone to and from school. And if I accompanied them, how would I get in a 40-hour work week?<br /><br />Gas at $10/gallon changes everything. It could make it financially sound for either my husband or I to quit our jobs just to find time to go to the grocery store. Where, of course, food would be 4x more expensive. So I'd need to grow my own food. Or shoot the deer feasting on my tulips : )Jennifer (ponderosa)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17712875613623664156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-83418069643134500682012-04-18T20:18:40.878-04:002012-04-18T20:18:40.878-04:00I agree that gas should be more expensive, with an...I agree that gas should be more expensive, with an important caveat - in many, many areas of the US, there is simply no alternative to driving if you need to get anywhere. Inadequate investment in public transportation means that the lag between the higher pricing and the improved fuel efficiency will create very real hardships for a alot of people. I don't know what the solution is.RuthWellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00022925821891020061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-56503986188501664172012-04-18T18:10:06.607-04:002012-04-18T18:10:06.607-04:00:):)Heide Esteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08022964463219865228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-34247824202440222702012-04-18T17:37:31.688-04:002012-04-18T17:37:31.688-04:00Gas prices is one of those areas where I REALLY DO...Gas prices is one of those areas where I REALLY DO/DON'T want the change. I don't, because of course I don't want to pay more. But I do, because I'm a business/economics major and I think almost all change in a capitalistic society is financially motivated, and I think increasing gas prices solves a taxes problem AND an environmental problem AND motivates more action to be taken with other energy sources.Swistlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13126937282657655091noreply@blogger.com