The price per gallon may rebound by several dollars, but the bigger indeterminent that is busting my @ss is the couple penny increase in fed tax.  Did I get it right?

Oh.  It will never go below 18.4 cents.  Not a big point.


The potential for the gas pricing on the upside seems more affecting.

No.  No.  I was just trying to understand the greater concern of a couple pennies per gallon over what a potential several dollar increase was all about.  A conversation that brings some curiosity to it.

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Time to invest in some cat food, eh?.....LMMFAO

I know, it was that redistribution of wealth thing that really got to you.

And I will be glad to answer that question in June.

Gas is about $2.35 a gal here.  Approx 1/2 what it was at it's peak.  Oil is less than $50/bbl approx 1/3 what it was at it's peak.  Gas is much higher at the pump now than it was the last time the price of oil was around $50 / bbl and people are thinking this is great.

Something is wrong.  Congress really showed the oil companys who's boss when they paraded the heads of the oil companys in front of them to get answers.  Congress likes high prices.  It means more tax revenue.

-P.

Since then the state has said they are going to double the tolls (that were paid for 20 years ago) and raise the gas tax.

GWEN IFILL: The president came out after the Minneapolis bridge collapse and said, "Secretary Mary Peters will be my point person on this and will fix this problem." And then he came out a few days later and said, "Taxes will not go up." A $188 billion infrastructure problem, how do you begin?

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GWEN IFILL: No, but I mean -- I guess I mean is for the part that they asked for where they would essentially charge commuters coming into Manhattan eight dollars a head. Did you approve that part of it?

MARY PETERS: What we approved was the project that they would pursue, congestion relief, pricing techniques to pursue congestion relief in New York City and that they would achieve the results that they had proposed in their initial proposal to us.

You may be aware that the state legislature created a committee that is tasked with looking at various ways to relieve congestion in the city. What we have said is, you have to meet the result. You have to use congestion pricing. You have to meet the result, in terms of a substantial decrease in the congestion in your city, but we're not specific in terms of how they do that.

GWEN IFILL: Do you think that's a good idea, or is it a tax on commuters?

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GWEN IFILL: Is the distinction between this and a gas tax, say, a distinction between a mandatory tax and an optional tax?

MARY PETERS: Well, somewhat that is the case, certainly, because people can choose to go into an area where there's congestion pricing or not. But I think the real user fee benefit of this is people are paying where they're using the system and they're seeing direct benefits from where they're using the system.

And that's where I think the real win for the American public is. When you or I pay our gas taxes today, we don't really know where that money is going to go or whether or not it's going to benefit us right directly in our community or not.

Now about that car that runs on bullshit. Washington DC alone could supply the nation...southern California a close second.