Re: The price of Gas in UK

Gas in the UK is much more heavily taxed than the US. The LIEberal leftists would love to tax our gas that high

here.

Charles the Curmudgeon.

...and then complain about how the high prices are hurting the poor, and that we need more funding for the poor.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

And the vicious circle continues...

One alternative is to tax energy, but rebate the taxes directly or indirectly to the everyone equally. Those who conserve energy will keep most of the rebates while those who use more energy will end up paying more.

Another alternative is to give tax and other incentives for things that really conserve energy, as opposed to ethanol from corn which doesn't conserve all that much energy and whose energy is need to fuel other things, like people's body (i.e., as food).

Jeff

Would not a sliding scale of per-unit usage do the same thing (like electricity is done now)? But in either case, the energy intensive manufacturers will, rightfully so, pass the costs on to us, the people who buy their products.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')