I'm afraid that you gentlemen and ladies of the US are sitting ducks
when it comes to this subject. The price of fuel for cars, trucks
and industry in Europe is below what it costs to clean up after it -
before you consider the damage caused by global warming. In the USA
the cost differential is of course much greater.
I only hope that the Climate Conference can convene reasonably soon,
this side of Armageddon I mean (;-)), and come to some sort of
reasonable absolute limit on pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Chris
Don't blame big oil necessarily. Gas taxes are a convenient way to finance
both road construction and mass transit, among other things....For example,
in our area, in order for a county to get rail service, they have to join a
regional council. The council requires that a 2 0as tax be added in order to
finance the building of stations and to subsidize train fares. All mass
transit is financed by the government somehow, gas tax is merely a sitting
duck. The only mass transit that actually survives on fare box take only, as
far as I know, is monorail. The Japanese have many monorail systems that are
completely privately run, as I understand it. See the Monorail Society web
page: http://www.monorails.org
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Dirk Wright
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Cambridgeshire, England.
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