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by John F Mann
Policies that result in the use of less gasoline will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. With the key assumption that the theory of man-made global warming is correct, the l...read more
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Pollution Taxes & Subsidies Are Key to Combating Global Warming: Yes higher gasoline taxes could help fight global warming. The idea of pollution taxes is nothing new. Gree...read more
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by Bonita Pinto
Higher taxes on gas/petrol would definitely help fight global warming in so much that higher taxes are proven to reduce the consumption of oil, the burning of which causes CO2 a...read more
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Currently the technology exists to eliminate the world's dependecy on fossil fuels. Solar cars, thermo-energy, nuclear energy, bio-degradable fuels, all of these items have been...read more
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by Amy Thorn
Why? Why would higher taxes help fight global warming? Money is not our problem. Economic growth, production and population growth is the problem. Instead of higher taxes, try o...read more
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Would higher gas taxes help fight global warming? The answer is a sad NO. People do not do enough to prevent global warming as they really do not feel the incentive to do so. F...read more
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by J.M. Schell
Those who believe higher gas prices or for that matter funny looking light bulbs, or extra cheese on their pizza will "fight global warming" start from the logically flawed prem...read more
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by Ted Sherman
Crushing higher taxes on the already needlessly over-burdened driving public is a terrible idea. We can only guess that the misdirected reasoning behind it is equivalent to beat...read more
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by Michael Daly
The premise behind fighting global warming is dubious to begin with, because the argument for global warming is based on grossly politicized science, a good deal of it pseudo-sc...read more
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by B. L. Babb
The answer to every problem in this country should not translate to increasing taxes. The answer to global warming is not to take more money from people who cannot afford gas...read more
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Southern California Local News Los Angeles County Freeways Going Toll Road from Carpool is the Newest Proposal by the MTA, Is that the Best Way to Go? The Proposal is to conv...read more
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First of all the whole story about global warming is an air bubble. So far I have never heard or read any solid evidence for it. There are a lot of theories, but none of them ha...read more
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by Larry Hooten
Higher gas prices will do nothing to fight global warming. Those who claim that it will generally believe either that it will reduce overall usage of fossil fuels, or it will en...read more
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