Re: A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax
Matt wrote:
Oil and gas run the furnaces that are used for heating in all sorts of manufacturing facilities. Higher costs here would require such firms to cut costs in other areas - like eliminating pensions and offshoring. Manufacturing moves its raw material and final products via truck, and higher fuel costs raise those costs too. With the same disastrous effect for the working class.
I suppose those of us working in manufacturing can move to the various Megalopolises and became cooks and waiters, which is where the job growth seems to be.
Why is so hard to grasp the fact that we’re courting disaster by burning hydrocarbons at such a furious rate? I say this as someone not given to apocalyptic thinking. It’s barely a matter of scientific controversy anymore, though I’m sure James Heartfield would differ.
Doug