NYT Thinks Economy Not Bad Enough Yet; Demands $4Gal Gas As Subsidy For Repainting Lenin's Portrait On Their Ivory Tower
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BUT NO-OO-OOOO!
That's -Not Cool- with the NYT!
There aren't yet enough suburban Society Wives clipping coupons or Hedge-Funders trading in mega-yachts. Things don't need to get better, they should get Worse!
*Coupled with a sense of timing that would make (the inventor of the guillotine)^(Marie Antoinette's cake comment) look less ironic, their Man Ezra Dyer [ed: and now Thomas L. Friedman] think that NOW is the time to introduce their bold idea to somehow save face for Al Gore.
=>As, cheap gas rankles him and his cronies.
So what's their brilliant*(awesomely bad) idea???
-Tax gas up to $4/gal no matter what the actual market rate is for it.
If that (and all the great unintended consequences) doesn't give you at least a tiny laugh, I don't know what will.
Because apparently, nobody owns cars and has to drive great distances; they all live in dense metro areas and can just hop on the electric-powered Subway to get wherever they need to go.
El Paso Texas?
-No problem. You can take the A, C, or E -just get on at 14th street.
Ely Montana?
That's not a problem either. You get on the #1,2 or 3 bus heading downtown, then hop onto the L at Union Square and finally get off at the stop just before Barcade.
SO: Go check out the full commentary on this idea over at one of the best car blogs out there:
TheTruthAboutCars-NYT: Tax Gas To $4 Min. ++ TheTruthAboutCars-NYT's Friedman: Tax is a Win^5
Posted by elburro on 12/29/08 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend |
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