nytimes.com - 12/31/2008
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How many times do we have to see this play before we admit that it always ends the same way? Which play? The one where gasoline prices go up, pressure rises for more fuel-efficient cars, then gasoline prices fall and the pressure for low-mileage vehicles vanishes, consumers stop buying those ...
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2008: Goodbye to all that
Marc Gunther —
... 5. Cheap gas. I fear this will lead to a resurgence in SUV sales but I hope it provides a political opening for one of the simplest and most effective responses to the problem of climate change and the quest for more energy security: a gasoline tax. The other day in The Times, Tom Friedman argued for a gas tax in a column headlined Win, Win, Win, Win, Win. So did Arthur Laffer, in an op-ed touting ...
Choosing A Priority
Energy Outlook —
... would allow such a tax to be imposed with much less pain than only a few months ago. Yet as Tom Friedman's New York Times column on the subject recognized, this entails an explicit choice between taxing gasoline and taxing the greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. Friedman has been a consistent supporter of higher gas taxes, and he still comes down on that side of the argument. For many reasons, I disagree, but it's even more important to choose one strategy or the other than to continue assuming that we can do both, if we wish. ...
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