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Last Monday, i bought gas for $1.85… Today, that same place sold it to me at $2.15….. Holy Crappo!… I’m paying 20 cents more for gas than I did a week ago….
People were still driving.
No one was declaring bankruptcy.
No one lost their home.
No one took public transportation.
All the doomsday scenarios put forth by Ms. Longhurst when she adamantly refused to put a bill on the floor that would save Delawareans $1000 a year in wear in tear on each of their vehicles by keeping our roads free of potholes for just half, half, half, only half of what just occurred at the pump in Delaware last week…
For just half of that jump that didn’t end the world. Delawareans could be fixing roads. putting people to work, and saving big, big bucks by years end off of the non-existent wear and tear of their car… And still be saving $1.50 per gallon over what was being paid less than 6 months ago….
So instead of fixing our roads and saving $1.50 per gallon, we are paying the exact same amount we would have anyways, with oil companies keeping that ten cents instead of it going our highway system…
Sometimes people do stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid things… And when they do, they should get called out on it (ideally it keeps others from doing the same stupid thing next time)…. And not passing a measly 10 cent gas tax last session was as stupid as stupid comes….
Can we get it done now, please? Or is the world going to end tomorrow?
Last week I was overjoyed to pay $2.88 a gallon for gas. This week I was overjoyed to pay $2.78. But it shows exactly how little 10 cents a gallon really was.
Now, we don’t have new roads. Now we have congestion. Now our potholes take way too long to fix….
Now we won’t have 2,500 highway construction jobs we could have had… And you would never even know you were paying for them….
It is sad… just sad that the betterment of all Delaware’s men, women, and children, was put on the back burner so people could “pretend” they didn’t like “taxes”.
One wheel alignment because one hit one pothole, costs more than the invisible cost of 10 cents a gallon on gas under $3.00…..
The bridge closing may be a blessing in disguise… It shows the benefit if raising the gas tax 10 cents to pay for our projects….
This gas tax is nothing… We’ve been paying more for a gallon ever since the crash of 2009… We as customers will continue paying the same, and the oil companies and hedge funds will be the ones who can no longer get what they used to get out of a gallon…
In a study earlier this year, we showed all that the price of gas is not based upon supply, but on demand… States with higher taxes, get their pre-tax gas cheaper than states with little or no tax… yet they all come from the exact same refineries….
The Republicans who pretend to be against all taxes, are saying this is not affordable…
Here is what they are hiding from you….
Let us take the $20 million needed to repair the 495 bridge…. At ten cents a gallon, that $20 million will come from 200 million gallons…. At an average of 20 gallons per fill-up, that would amount to 10 million fill-ups in this state per year…. Excluding motorcycles and buses, there are an estimated 817,000 vehicles registered in Delaware….. The ten cents tax amounts to 12 extra fill-ups per year…. Of course, that is one a month… like you took an extra trip….
When this tax came out, we were told that 60% of gas sold in Delaware is to out of state vehicles… If that figure is true, then theoretically, you and I would only be accountable for 40% of that cost, which means we’d only fill up once extra for 4 months and have the rest normal….. Is that really back breaking to us all?
Without the gas tax… it will have to come out of income tax… If allotted evenly, that 20 million spread over every citizen, amounts to $20 for every man, woman, and child in the state… (Considering the school population of the entire state k-12 is close to 130,000, then if you add the population from the years 0-4 for an additional 30,000, it would mean that the number of Delawarean paying taxes would be 870,000… ) That $20 million tax spread across all taxpayers evenly amounts to $23 per taxpayer…. per year….
So our choice is having the oil companies and hedge funds pay our tax for us, or to pay it directly out of our incomes…. You will pay the same for gas regardless. Doesn’t it make sense to be getting something out of it for a change instead of having all our money simply go straight to their profit line?
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