Letter to NADA from Washington Post: Gas tax now

The good ole gas lines of the '70s!

"The new CAFE bill has the same flaw as the old CAFE bill," writes the Washington Post's Warren Brown this weekend in an open letter to Annette Sykora, Chairwoman of the National Auto Dealer's Association. "It does not ask consumers to do one thing, pay one thing, give up one thing or participate in any meaningful way in fuel conservation.

Later, Brown states, "the old CAFE bill did absolutely nothing to reduce the nation's overall consumption of gasoline and other oil-derived fuels. Gasoline consumption, in fact, has skyrocketed in America since the first CAFE law went into effect in 1975. Increased technical fuel efficiency plus cheap gasoline equals increased consumer demand for all that gasoline provides and supports and, thus, increased gasoline consumption."

Hence, "If Americans won't pay more for burning all of the oil-based fuels they use willy-nilly, perhaps they will be willing to support a military draft to send more of their children to the Middle East to fight and die for it.........Either way, we are going to pay. It's just a question of how much and when."

I'll second that.