Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
Gas subsidies? I thought gas was heavily taxed not subsidized. Uncle Sam makes for more money on gas than the oil companies. Perhaps you mean the tax breaks givin to oil well investors? Well that helps exporation and we need more of that.
The oil companies make billions in profits that should be used for exploration. The subsidies increase profits @ this point reducing gasoline prices to artificialy low levels.
That's why our rail transit industy is a joke compared to the rest of the developed world & our roads are clogged W/large ineffecient trucks that not only are unsafe due to increased roll-over potential, they in themselves make small cars more dangerous when they are impaceted by those 3 ton behemoths. Our roads would be safer W/O all those huge gas guzzling hulks. If you get hit by a semi, the SUV isn't going to save you. If 2 SUVs collide, the energy of the impact is increased exponentially so that doesn't help survivability either.