California failin’ 3

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   Ammonite Posted 8:58 pm
   02 Aug 2006

   Try and try againAt least California has been making efforts to reduce dependency on oil for years. This is more than can be said for Washington DC, where the politicians have been bought and sold by the oil industry - just look at your president and his administration. So keep on trying, California, maybe one day there will be a successful outcome... but Arnie - show a good example and start the ball rolling by getting rid of your Hummer and banning them from the streets.
   
   "Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money."

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   GRLCowan Posted 2:49 am
   03 Aug 2006

   It's important not to fail to be cynicaland understand that with total gasoline taxes in California on the order of 50 US cents a gallon, in "attempting" to lose that revenue, futility was always and absolutely the plan.
   --- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
   
   Boron plus pure oxygen: internal combustion without exhaust

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   ffletcher Posted 3:26 am
   03 Aug 2006

   Just Cause It's Cynical Doesn't Mean It's Not TrueG.R.L. makes a cynical, but very likely a true, point that for a number of policymakers the tax revenue associated with gasoline is tempting to keep in place.  It is one of my cynical concerns regarding a carbon tax.  A carbon tax will create a desire, for a significant number of policymakers, to keep the carbon burning.

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