Oil is a finite resource and as it runs out, gas will be $5/gal someday, it’s only a matter of when. The only responsible objective is to find an alternative. I support a gas tax because I’d rather use that money now to help find alternative fuels and clean up the mess we’ve made, rather than give it to the Saudi’s so they can build the world’s biggest island and the world’s tallest building.
I do think it’s .. ironic that American’s have paid Bush’s tax to the Saudi’s 10 times over by now in increased gas prices. A link between oil money and terrorism is at least as viable as a link to drug money. But our government doesn’t put that in commercials. We pay the expenses for both sides of our war in Iraq.
I’ve gotten several emails from people over the last few days about boycotting certain gas companies. One mentioned $46 billion dollar net losses for oil companies if the US didn’t by oil for one day. Needless to say I won’t be buying any gas that day (I don’t drive a car). But the rest of America will. Because they have no other option. And we never will have any other option as long as the gas flows cheaply. Gas for $1/gal is immoral, in my opinion. We need find better things to spend $46 billion/day on, and hopefully better people to give it to.