Get ready for Gas increase!

[talnlnky]

Originally Posted by CrazedEpidemic

I don't mind if it goes up to $2/gallon. I think it should be taxed to $4/gallon to continue our path to a greener world and we should get rebates to offset the taxes so the money stays in America.

No joke, I'd love to see a nation wide $1-2 per gallon tax that would go towards building modern railways. Think bullet trains All the way up and down the east & west coasts. Miami to NY with a stop at every big city. Then San Diego to LA to the Bay area to Portland to Seattle.

And then eventually a south and north cross country bullet train to connect the west & east coasts.

I think we should copy the japanese on this. Not just do bullet trains, but also put lots of money into local loop lines and such to reduce so much of the wear & tear on local roads & highways. The amount of money saved in road construction & maintenance would nearly offset the initial construction costs...

And to think if we could build a network of trains like japan has, you'd never get shit from your boss for being late when in reality there was a wreck on the roads.... trains in japan almost never get in wrecks, and run on time... nearly to the second.