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Old 05-27-2006, 03:16 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hevusa
I completely agree, however to make this happen in a rapid fashion we need those in our government to stop making money off of oil (personal involvment, lobbyists). After that our government could mandate some serious changes to get us off oil althogether.

The government itself is the biggest recipient of money from the gas taxes. You can mostly thank your wonderful democrat friends for raising those taxes. Of course, it's just much easier to blame everyone in government rather than those who are really responsible.