Off Topic. Ford wants gas tax Options

[dmenche914]

I could not believe what I read on the news (reported on Reuters), Bill Ford Jr. of Ford Motor Co. wants a $.50 gallon gas tax to encourage people to buy more efficent cars, he also wants a tax incentive to assist people buying his complex Hybrid vehicles! You all might want to write Ford about this joker, as his tax will effect all drivers, even those that get near 30 mpg in there 30 year old 914s, which is better milage than most Ford products sold today. Just venting today on a statement from a true idiot. What a self serving proposal, that would cost many of us hundereds of dollars per year.

dave

[Bleyseng]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) with Lupawali except raise the tax to a dollar.

Spend that tax money on real mass transit like literail that goes everywhere and unlike buses doesn't share the roads with cars. The trains zip along instead of buses which are stuck in traffic. Yep, they have some small cars in Europe and small engines. Probably the most powerful car I rode in was Jeroen's 911!
We have a auto lifestyle where all the small local stores are gone displaced by mega Walmart with huge parking lots. If people couldn't afford to drive the miles to go to these mega stores they would walk to a local business. Walmart would die or disappear.
Spend some of the tax money on rebuilding the roads we have, in the Seattle area they are terrible!
I still rail when I see a Yukon in traffic with a Blonde driving while on the cell phone while doing her makeup. Land tanks that are a joke.

Geoff