Thanks to plunging recessionary demand gas prices head under $3a gallon -- bring back our SUVs and forget all that talk aboutalternative energy sources. In fact, given what happened almost 30years ago, if energy prices were to keep going down, fervor couldquickly abate for conservation and driving less.
Actually, now is the time to raise the federal gas tax 25 centsa gallon. Raise taxes! How outrageous when everyone has beenwracked by the financial meltdown. Will it happen? Very unlikelygiven the political wave of bailouts, rescues, and tax givebackspushing up our national debt to increasingly stratosphericlevels.
But raising the gas tax would help on three essential fronts,providing short and long-term solutions to problems facing thecountry: (1) raise money to create jobs and repair our agingtransport systems, (2) build new 21st century infrastructure thatis necessary for keeping the nation competitive, and (3) restrainnotions that we can slip back and do nothing about our energydependency.
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