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	Name:	UncleSam -
	Subject:	GAS TAX PROPOSAL
	Date:	5/2/2008 12:53:20 PM

You're right; it's wrong to think that it's all about fast boats, etc; likewise, it's wrong to assume that other people think that it's all about fast boats, cars, and the like.

It's all about dependence on available resources. In this case, the resource is oil, and the dependence is high, which raises the price and creates a lot of teeth-gnashing.

But if you reduce the dependence in one area, you raise the availability (and thus lower the price) in the other areas.

Think of it this way: you have a well, and you can draw 100 gallons of water per day from that well. When you total up what you need for bathing, cooking, car-washing and drinking each day, you discover that 100 gallons is probably not enough water to suit your needs. Oh no! There's not enough water! You need to buy some extra... and the guy who sells it knows this, and jacks the price accordingly.

But then, you discover that you can bathe and wash the car using rainwater that you collect in a barrel (and you also realize that you don't need to wash the car every day anyway.) Suddenly, that 100 gallons is plenty for drinking and cooking; there's even a little left over for other uses, or emergencies. You don't need to buy water anymore; with the demand lessened, the guy who is selling it has to drop the price to a more reasonable level.

The problem isn't that fossil fuels are used in so many different ways; the problem is that we have created a society that has become dependent on those fuels in all of those ways, when we could have-- and hopefully still can-- used alternative ways to get what we need without oil.