Are the Big Three just ghostwriting WaPo editorials now? 3

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   JMG Posted 4:21 pm
   28 Jan 2009

   Don't look nowbut the little 3 are just the warts on the big ugly hog that is the highway lobby.
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   liberalnun Posted 7:40 am
   29 Jan 2009

   I do agree with one thing:A gas tax would address two variables: the cars people buy, and the number of miles people drive. The clean car standard only addresses one: the cars people buy. So, if we were talking about two different policy instruments that were equally politically competitive, I'd favor the gas tax. Unfortunately, there's no way Obama would be able to push a gas tax through Congress that could accomplish in any decent length of time what the clean car standard will accomplish immediately. I'm amazed that the WaPo editors would actually propose it as a viable solution. In conclusion, the WaPo editors must be smoking crack.

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   liberalnun Posted 7:42 am
   29 Jan 2009

   I should have said......a viable solution for the short run. Perhaps the political climate will change enough in ten years to make a substantial gas tax possible.

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