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Originally Posted by opentocomments
I'm kind of confused as to how this shifted to cigarettes, i was just trying to argue that if we want to fix the gasoline issue (namely move away from a dependency on oil) shouldn't we make it more expensive to use then cheaper to use?
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Gas prices have gone up by more than 300% in about 4 years. and people are still driving everywhere. How is increasing the gas tax going to help? All that will do is make those of us who have to buy gas no matter what, have to pay more for it. The oil companies won't be motivated to find new energy sources based on that.