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Increased gas taxes is a "decentive" to buy a suv, but it is an incentive to buy a car, especially if you gain the gas tax difference back.
It's how Europe fixed their transportation problems. Gas over there costs 3-4 dollars a gallon, comparably. And it is mostly tax. Most people have smaller cars that get incredible gas mileage compared to what we get here.
There is nothing wrong with incentives to eliminate gas guzzlers. Now there is a ford and GM plan to convert one of their suv's (Escape for Ford) into a hybrid, but it keeps getting delayed. If we raise the gas tax there will be an instant market for this and Ford will work their asses off to get this to market.
ANWR will not be a temporary fix, drilling has too much lag time.
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