Fuel tax Re: [Peakoil] News items from Canberra Times Wed, 9 Aug 2006

[Antony Barry]

On 09/08/2006, at 11:51 AM, Alex P wrote:

> I actually think cutting fuel excise is a bad idea, it only increases
> dependency, hastening the decline of supplies and increases our trade
> imbalance. Until there is a consensus amongst all voters and  
> especially
> politicians that Peak Oil is real, imminent, requires urgent action  
> within
> the constraints of climate change and other limits, then cutting  
> fuel tax
> is a distraction and will prolong the delusions. Cutting fuel tax  
> should
> either never happen or is a once-off reward once everyone has wised  
> up.

Agree. I'm yet to see anybody commenting on carbon taxes which would  
have to be placed on petrol. Of OPECD nations we have the _lowest_  
tax except for the US.

Tony
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