AP/AOL Poll: 2/3 of Americans See Gas Prices a $ Hardship - Page 2 - GreenHybrid

Wieder · #11 (**permalink**) 08-13-2005, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by wwjdrv

I also heard the price per gallon that would have an impact on our society's fuel consumption was $2.00, then I heard $2.35, and now they are saying $3.00. It was interesting, they expected a huge jump in mass transit riders, but I know in the bay area, they saw an increase of .5-1% depending on what form of transportation.

Im not sure that we will ever really get it.

People got it in the late 1970's. Not as much as they *should* have, but gas consumption dropped significantly during the gas crunch. We haven't reached the inflation adjusted levels where people start curbing their usage on a large scale yet.

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AZCivic · #12 (**permalink**) 08-13-2005, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Hot_Georgia_2004

.......And we have little to say about the Government taking ~15% of each and every paycheck. We've all heard the billions of pork attached to the latest energy and transportation bills.

I wonder which bill is more costly to us consumers? Fueling our cars or a bloated and overly complicated income tax?

I'm not sure where your 15% number came from, unless you're just referring to social security + medicare. Between federal and state income tax, SSI, medicare, and sales taxes paid, about 45 cents of every dollar I make goes to the government. Compare that to about 3 cents of every after tax dollar going to gasoline. Oh well, Americans love socialism, that's all there is to it. If there was a vote to have the government take over all oil companies and gas stations, it would win.