So we're suddenly ok with environmental destruction because avoiding it is harder than ignoring it? (Reply #16)

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Fri Dec 23, 2016, 11:50 AM

FBaggins (21,000 posts)

16. So we're suddenly ok with environmental destruction because avoiding it is harder than ignoring it?

Both you and geek tragedy have entirely valid concerns here (and yes, gasoline demand is not as price-elastic as we might prefer)... but liberals have favored higher gasoline taxes for decades. That's why prices in Europe are so high.

It would be better under a Democratic administration/Congress so that offsetting credits could ease the impact on the poorest, but that only reduces the attractiveness... it doesn't eliminate it.

I also like that it would encourage domestic production (with both the ecological costs and geopolitical benefits).

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23 replies	Author	Time	Post
GOP Tax Plan Could Boost Prices At the Pump [View all]	Charlie Brown	Dec 2016	OP
Higher gas and fuel oil prices - how "populist"	jpak	Dec 2016	#1
Cost more	Bear Creek	Dec 2016	#2
Not to mention they dont want to pass on the benefit of higher wages which alot of people in	cstanleytech	Dec 2016	#5
Good.	FBaggins	Dec 2016	#3
There is another downside and it for people like myself who live on a very fixed and limited budget	cstanleytech	Dec 2016	#6
Oh Come On!	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2016	#8
This would disproportionately hit people who live outside cities with public transportation	geek tragedy	Dec 2016	#11
So We're Rooting for Poor People to suffer?	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2016	#13
I see a lot of that these days. We must not become that which we hate. I've also	dionysus	Dec 2016	#14
Same Page	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2016	#20
We recognize it's not unjust for those who made these	geek tragedy	Dec 2016	#15
Like Me?	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2016	#19
Not wishing revenge. Just observing that	geek tragedy	Dec 2016	#21
So we're suddenly ok with environmental destruction because avoiding it is harder than ignoring it?	FBaggins	Dec 2016	#16
Irre!evant	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2016	#18
Everything has to be vetted by you, doesn't it. Never offer a figging fact, just signify. Talk ....	marble falls	Jan 2018	#23
Just like the Bush years gas prices will go through the roof It's part of the GOP gouging of America	TeamPooka	Dec 2016	#4
A rise in transportation costs	neohippie	Dec 2016	#7
airline tickets	catsudon	Dec 2016	#10
well well	catsudon	Dec 2016	#9
Help me out here, guys	jmowreader	Dec 2016	#12
We are aleady 50 cents higher than Nov 8.	Norbert	Dec 2016	#17
I noticed that too	TexasBushwhacker	Dec 2016	#22

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