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Originally posted by Superbelt
Driving a hummer is equivalent to just tossing gallons of gas on a fire to see it to up in smoke. Driving a Hummer is not a right.
But, I probrably wouldn't ban the hummer either. I would just quadruple gas taxes. See how many hummers and escalades and navigators are sold then.
People who drive a car with good gas mileage (31mpg and up), or are farm workers can keep their gas reciepts and turn them in to get a rebate on their tax that brings them down to the gas tax rate we are at right now.
I think that is the PERFECT solution.
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I agree 100%.
But there is a simpler way to do it. Put a gas guzzler tax on the damn things when you buy them. A hummer eh, well, that will be $60,000 sir, plus you gas guzzler tax of $100,000.00 for a total of $160,000 dollars please sir.
Anything getting over 30 MPG there is no tax and then it's a graduated scale up based on decreasing mileage. If you are a farmer, or a contractor and need a pickup truck for your work, then you are excempt. No exemptions other than that, irregardless of vehicle type.
See how many people buy idiotic SUV's then.
I see these fucking HUGE navigators, Cadilac whatevers, Ford school buses and it is INFUCKINGSANE. You get some 30 pound overweight 40 something soccer mom with 3 screaming brats in the back with chocolate smeared all over their piglet faces wailing down the street at 80 km/hr while she is on the cell phone headed over to Costco and you just KNOW that the world is out of its mind.
No-one in god's green earth needs to drive an assault vehicle.
My parents had 4 kids and we had a 64 Pontiac Strato Chief with a straight 6 and we managed just fine.