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Should Hummers/Jeep Wranglers/Oil Heaters be taxed heavily/illegal?
Posted by ctzpanda on Motor Trends forums, they write:
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Just think:
You are rich. You don't care about oil prices. You drive a Hummer and get 10mpg. You fill up 20 gallons once a week. You use 80 gallons of gasoline every month.
I am not rich but I drive a fuel efficient econo-car. I get 30mpg. I fill up 20 gallons twice a month, at most. I use 40 gallons of gasoline every month.
By using twice as much gas I do (even though I drive twice as much), you are driving up the demand and draining the supply at twice the rate as I am, and if you drove as much, 4x the rate.
By doing so, you are negatively impacting your neighbors because while you may not care about gas prices (because you're rich), your working class neighbors do. Stupidly, you may not know this but your own Hummer is actually draining your 401k and stock portfolios as the cascading effects of oil prices is killing earnings (of Airlines, delivery, and bus companies), increasing costs of any company that indirectly uses oil, decreasing the wealth of every American who drives (and enriching the few who work for oil companies, and the middleeast of course), contributing to resource inflation (which also kills wealth), etc.
So, what do you guys think? Heavy federal tax on gas guzzlers like the Hummers, Jeep Wranglers of the world? Cheaper gas for fuel efficient vehicles?
How about just banning Hummers period, unless you have a bonafide reason (like Law Enforcement) to own one? Don't give me freedom crap, you are not free to own an M16 nor are you free to harm everyone else around you for your own benefit.
Same applies to Oil heaters (the government should phase them out with incentives).
And Trucks for those who don't use them as part of their livelihoods.
Source: http://forums.motortrend.com/70/6808241/the-general-forum/should-hummers-jeep-wranglers-oil-heaters-be-taxed/index.html
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