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An unpopular solution (Gasoline)
Wouldn't one solution to the "problem" of growing sticker prices at the pump be to raise the taxes on gasoline? Now this seems like a contradictory idea but shouldn't an increase on the taxes on gasoline give people that little push to start using alternatives and/or drive less. With the fall off in demand there would be an influx of supply and therefore the prices of gasoline with the newly imposed tax should fall somewhere right around where the price of gas was prior to the tax but by this time people will have already started using public transit, and bought more fuel efficent cars and thus lowered our dependency on middle eastern oil. If iraq, iran, and afganistan are all really our enemies then why do we send the funding every time we start up our cars? So my proposition is that we add an additional dollar a gallon to the price of gasoline and who is going to be willing to drive a hummer then? With any luck a self correcting market should find a way to get the price of gasoline at a rate that is consitant with with those who are demanding the good are willing to pay. If everyone in our nation is willing to pay the additional 2 dollars a gallon then the govenment has that much more money to spend. However i think the worst thing you can do for the market is to offer government subsidies on the price of gasoline how is the market going to correct itself if the consumers don't even feel the full brunt of the problem?
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