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Well the price of oil hasn't got to the point where it is going to end the age of OIL...

Americans aren't driving less yet....they are merely diveriting income that would be spent in other places to buying gasoline...Gasoline is a necessity..to get back and forth to work etc.

There is NO ALTERNATIVE source of energy that can take the place of oil....coal, Nuclear, Natural Gas...all have their places...Solar is inefficeient, Geo Thermal, Hydroelectric, Wind...all can help but can't replace...

I said it before and Island reiterated it....The Oil companies are in the energy business, not just oil persay...at one time XOM owned Nuclear Plants....so they will get behind anything if it is viable


Raising Taxes on Petroleum products would be like slitting your own throats...

We are in a BRAVE NEW WORLD since 911....the American people are going to have to face realities that are not to their liking... that basically we are losing our edge...that the wanabes are far hungrier...and are willing to give it a bit more...

The USA is like a team that has won four Superbowls in a row, and now is coasting on it's past glory... has lost it's opening game on the new season... has performed lack lusterly, winning by going through the motions that got those Supebowl wins and the back up Quarterback is screaming that it is all the Quartebacks fault so put him in.. while the rest of the team looks at each other shrugging their shoulders as each of them drives away in their Ferraris.

Instead of a Gasoline tax...why not charge a road useage tax the more U drive the more you pay....