New Fuel Tax Suggestion

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You are not living in reality. My job involves driving from customer to customer. There is no other way. You can’t predict the pattern, frequency or length of time. How on earth did you determine the average amount of gasoline ? My wife can tele-commute. Walk right out of bed to the screen and log in. When things break/fail somebody has to go fix it. I am not being "forced " to use gasoline, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. When the other way in invented and I have a real choice let me know, until then get back to reality. Oh - and I quote- “Also those who can’t afford a car, will get back money from those of us who are better off” ! As far as I can tell when someone does that without my permission it’s called STEALING.

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I note that in almost all cases when people cannot convince others of their position with logic or facts , the response is to TAX them into submission. Maybe your logic or facts are lacking and that’s why people don’t agree with you. No matter TAX the hell out of them

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Where did you note that? Have you been paying attention?

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“My job involves driving from customer to customer. There is no other way. You can’t predict the pattern, frequency or length of time.”

 There are such jobs.  There is a demand for such work and those who perform it will use a lot of expensive fuel.  As the price of fuel goes up then the price of your product or service must go up, unless you care to eat the cost.  Then the customer has to decide if the real cost, including fuel is worth the cost.  Yes some jobs will go the way of the buggy whip manufacturers. Yes I feel for those who end up with a new job, but life is about change.  Letting the true cost come to the table, allows for the free market system to do what it does best.
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A standard boycott won’t effect the oil companies…Mainly because it’ll be too short.

But one suggestion I heard was to boycott just ONE company…Exxon-Mobil because they’re the largest. If we boycott them completely for 1 month it MAY have an effect. They will have to start lowering their prices to compete and everyone else will have to start lowering theirs.

Problem - It would take MILLIONS of people nation wide to pull this off…and I don’t think it’s possible.