fuel prices

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Ivan or NoHachi?,

well offcourse, all the money the goverment 'earns' they spend, so they dont make a profit. The thing is, they are spending so much on the wrong things it is impossible for them to deal with a situation where their income suddenly disappears.

Just think of it, if tomorow everyone leaves there car at home and starts taking the bus (which is what the goverment claims they want) the goverment is in deep shit. They are suddenly faced with a heavily subsidiced public transport system without the income to support it.

I think that tax and subsidies are what makes progress impossible. The goverment should ask for a minimum of taxes and take care of lawenforcement, education, healthcare and a certain level of social security so people who really really need it get supported by the goverment.

When we then look at the subject of fuel we have to be carefull, it would suddenly become very cheap causing usage of fuel to skyrocket and enhance our problems. But this is not something to be corrected by tax. It is to be corrected by having oil companys pay for the hidden costs of using the fuel. We have to look at the polution caused by a certain type of fuel and ensure that the fuel will cost whatever it takes to reverse that polution. This will make dirty fuels very expensive, if even impossible to buy if there is no way to deal with the polution caused by them. It will also make clean fuels dead cheap.

But idealistic view I know, its almost utopic. But tax doesn't work because by using tax it means someone important has alot to loose when a better alternative is introduced.