What the fuck? I mean, what the fucking fuck? Gas isn't expensive enough already to force people to ask themselves if this trip is really necessary, so some dumb fucking congresscritter thinks more tax would be a good thing?
Of course the dumb f.'ing congresscritter is John "Ding Dong" Dingell, D-MI, who should have been retired years ago.
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., wants to help cut consumption with a gas tax but some don't agree with the idea, according to a new poll by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Yeah, "some" sure don't:
The poll, scheduled to be released on Thursday, shows 48 percent don't support paying even a penny more, 28 percent would pay up to 50 cents more, 10 percent would pay more than 50 cents and 8 percent would pay more than a dollar.
Only in Democrat-land is 48 percent "some".
"I think that wouldn't make any sense," said Frankie Hoe, a motorist. "Ugh ... who's making the money from all this and where is that money going? Is it going to go green? I don't see any green things anywhere."
No kidding. In response to Mr. Hoe's question, I imagine the money will go to feather certain congresscritters' earmarks. (So of course it will simply be wasted.)
Some environmentalists and economists say pain at the pump may be bad for Americans, but good medicine for a sick planet.
Some environmentalists and economists need to actually prove that the planet is sick before they start taxing my ass. There is NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF that anthropomorphic climate change AKA global warming actually exists. Yet these yammerheads want to claim that the issue is closed. Well -- it's supposed to snow here Friday. Lots of global warming in central Indiana, jerks.
"A tax on gas is a way to reduce dependence on import oil, reduce traffic congrestion and reduce carbon emissions," said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute.
Oh, f...Lester Brown? Anybody actually takes him seriously anymore? I thought he was dead. Sorry he's not.
David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said the proposal wouldn't help long term."I think when you are talking about raising gas prices, there may be short-term reduction, put off vacations, but bottom line is over long term, that isn't going to have much of an effect," Ridenour said.
Finally. A voice of sanity in a sea of climate and carbon idiocy.
Oh, and by the way: If you want to cut carbon, go talk to the Chinese. They put a hell of a lot more of it in the air than we do.
