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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656
governments should eliviate the ridiculous tax on fuel for the moment... it may stop a disaster that is imminent.....
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I hear/read that often, but I don't agree with it.... If governments reduce the tax on fuel then that only means that the oil-procucing countries in the Middle East can raise the price with a similar amount again, because the demand would stay the same.
You'd rather have your money end up at your own government or at the hands of these people who have so much of it that they don't even know anymore which kind of silly things to do with it next?
There's no going back anymore, especially not with the large economic growth (and therefore car use) in places like China and India. Instead of bitching about fuel prices people should see the opportunities the current situation provides to finally make alternatives (hybrid, public transport, blablabla etc, etc) economically viable. Alternatives that should've been there for a long time already if it wasn't for the low fuel prices we've had until now.
Transportation costs money, people! Natural resources aren't infinite!
Fine, call me a hippie. I don't care.