Opinion: Gas Tax Only Way to End US Oil Addiction
Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 26 July 2010 6:26 AM
If Americans are ever going to get serious about ending our addiction to oil there’s only one thing to do says an editorial in this morning’s USA Today: raise prices by way of a federal gas tax. Pointing to the 2008 spike in gas prices, the paper says “it did more to change habits and reduce oil usage than anything Congress and a parade of presidents had done in decades.”
A counterpoint written by the president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association argues that a gas tax would only hurt US consumers, who’ve already been battered by a high unemployment and dwindling bank accounts.
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