GM CEO calls for $1 gas tax hike

[Argo]

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/07/news/companies/gm_gas_tax_hike/?section=money_latest

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said his company and his industry would be helped, not hurt, if consumers paid higher gas taxes.

In an interview published in Tuesday's Detroit News, Akerson floated the idea of a $1 a gallon increase in the gas tax as a way to encourage buyers to purchase smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Greg Martin, spokesman for GM's Washington office, confirmed that the quotes reflect Akerson's and GM's view.

I think Obama is taking this sock puppet thing a tad too far.

 

[redrumloa]

Hopefully Obama will not be this stupid.

 

[Wayne]

Never underestimate the stupidity of... oh nevermind.. Go right ahead...

 

[cybereye]

I have been aware of GM's public relations been talking about jacking up the gas price for some 2 years or so. It not really new news to me. I guess that GM's public relations finally got into General Motors CEO Dan Akerson's brain. I would not take this as he really mean it.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Instead of adding a tax they could stop the subsidies. This would effectively do the same thing - bring oil up to its cost of production.

Imagine how expensive oil would be if oil companies had to hire their own armies to take over countries for their oil instead of using US government forces to do the job.

 

[cybereye]

Instead of adding a tax they could stop the subsidies. This would effectively do the same thing - bring oil up to its cost of production.

I am all for remove the subsidies on oil and gas. Let start subsidies on alternative fuel to kick up a notch to get into energy independence.

Imagine how expensive oil would be if oil companies had to hire their own armies to take over countries for their oil instead of using US government forces to do the job.

It already has happen and that is in a country that own oil companies. Independence oil companies will just jump into alternative fuel because of the subsidies.

 

[Fade]

Some fluff:
"Imagine how expensive oil would be if oil companies had to hire their own armies to take over countries for their oil instead of using US government forces to do the job"
-------------------------------------------------

Speaking of which;
Imagine how expensive your safety would be if Canada and Europe had to protect their own borders instead of glomming off the US government forces to do the job.

 

[redrumloa]

Speaking of which;
Imagine how expensive your safety would be if Canada and Europe had to protect their own borders instead of glomming off the US government forces to do the job.

If the USA went true isolationist the rest of the world would burn within days. Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Speaking of which;
Imagine how expensive your safety would be if Canada and Europe had to protect their own borders instead of glomming off the US government forces to do the job.

Imagine how expensive our safety would be if we tried to remain independent. There is no way we could fight off the US and that is why we let them keep us under their military umbrella. We have a lot of oil and minerals - the US is happy to protect them.

The Russians wouldn't mind putting us under their umbrella instead, I'm sure, and for the same reasons. Then it would be the Russians saying - hey, you should just be thankful that we are defending you.

Fact of the matter is that if you were at the top of society in the USSR life was pretty comfortable just like the top of society in the US. If you were on the bottom it was rough, but it's not that great in the US to be on the bottom.

For the average Joe it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of difference who your rulers are. Who the rulers are is much more important to the rulers.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

If the USA went true isolationist the rest of the world would burn within days.

Yeah, that's right. The instant the US stops holding the world's head in the toilet, the world will drown.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Alternatively, instead of adding tax to raise the price you could just cause trouble in the oil producing regions of the world. For some reason Libya, Iran and Venezuela were not feeling terribly co-operative at a recent OPEC meeting.