Reply #3: we've had this argument. [View All]

[ashmanonar]

the problem with this is that not everybody has access to public transit, or carpooling: so the people in rural areas get fucked in the ass over gas prices. (in the other discussion, it was advocated to raise prices over 6 or 7 bucks. up to 3 would probably be beneficial, europe and asia already pay more than 2 bucks a liter...)

plus there's the question of "can you really trust the government to spend the tax money on research, and not more military equipment that we don't need and the soldiers don't want?" (and not on supporting the actual troops, as should be done with what we have)