Do you think the US gov. should raise the tax on gasoline?

This would:


--encourage fuel conservation.


-- help pay off our $3 trillion-and-growing national debt, which will actually cost us Americans more in the future, and the interest on it mounts (Bush is just putting it off a major tax hike for future presidents to be stuck with).


--would and should go for highway repairs and maintenance.


--could possibly provide money for health care.


--would reduce taxes elsewhere in our system.





Americans have enjoyed cheap gas for decades while European countries have always imposed a high tax on gasoline. Now we're heading towards a fiscal crisis. Do you think putting an extra $1/gallon tax on gasoline (still far lower than Europeans pay) is a good way to start paying off our national debt (most of which we owe to China)?





After all, the $3 trillion Americans owe has to come from SOMEwhere . Is a $1/gallon boost on the gas tax a good place to start?|||Good question. Good points. Good idea. I'd also like to see the U.S. government take all of the oil companies' profits and subsidies and put them into green energy. I'm NOT talking about more drilling, nuclear, ethanol or anything else Bush has suggested, but I am talking about solar, wind, hydro, micro hydro, tidal, geothermal, electromagnetic and any of the other virtually limitless, free energy sources. We should get completely free of all petroleum products a.s.a.p. for a host of reasons.|||It looks like they don't need to as it stands.|||No i dont and what debt do we owe to china??? references please|||the oil companies will just rise the price on gas to compensate and their is nothing we can do about it|||good question and u have good points but i think they shouldent rasie the prices, hear in canada its like $1,110 and thats just insain|||yes i hope that gas goes to 10 or 20 dollars a gallon so that people will get off the highways and i and my rich buddies will have the roads to ourselves as it should be. the rich deserve better and we can only achieve this if we tax the little guy out of luxury items. mr doodles