It doesn't pay to conserve energy

[kevinbgoode]

From MSNBC's News of the Weird:

"To support its December rate-increase request, the Connecticut utility Yankee Gas Services said it needs more money because too many of its customers have lowered their bills by heeding calls to conserve energy. And a November report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce included the proposal that Congress replenish the federal Highway Trust Fund by imposing a special tax on gas-saving hybrid cars (in that those cars consume less fuel than regular cars and therefore pay less in gasoline tax)." (Connecticut Post, 12-10-05) (Boston Globe-AP, 11-26-05)

Ain't that a killer?

[Toots]

1. They are bound and determined to get you no matter what you do.

We here at DU see the underbelly of the GOP all the time and it is painful how ugly it is..

[TheFarseer]

2. What?!?!?!?!

The Feds need to stop this before conservation gets de-railed. The company needs to re-do their fee structure so that they can bill customers less if they use less of their product. How about a flat fee and then a fee based on consumption? And for the gas tax, charge more to license a car up front and base that on the value of the car and the gas mileage rating.

[sweetheart]

3. "they fuck you at the drive through."

Perhaps we should tax all horses to pay for cars.

[ThomWV]

4. Bwahahahaha .... No, Silly, Its The Other Way Around

We don't tax horses to pay for cars.

We tax your car and gas, and motor oil, and the wages of your mechanic, and everything else you can immagine so that people with polo ponies don't have to pay any taxes at all.

Bwahhahahahahahaha

Sad isn't it?

[sweetheart]

11. perhaps they should remake lethal weapon II

And in it, mel gibson can ride on a polo ponie, followed by an entourage
of servants and sycophants. And in the movie, he can be a crazy christian
who rides a pony, and believes himself to be a christian saint,

And then, and the movie's end, he can be tragically run down, by an 18
wheel high explosive truck, and the force of the explosion leaves little
droplets of donkey blood on the camera lens. And in the ending scene,
you can see, that mel gibson was actually carrying a letter and was
walking on the donkey on the way to washington DC to protest the violence,
and blundering egotism of modern film... And the camera pans away from the
burning letter high above the explosion, like the feather in forrest gump...
fade to black.

[4morewars]

6. I blame the Amish !

Those fuckers don't use ANY gas !

[FlaGranny]

8. They don't use any gas

AND those hooves and wagon wheels play havoc on the paved roads. Maybe a per wheel, per hoof, and per horseshit tax.

[MindPilot]

10. LOL!! That pretty much describes the whole tax structure

"Horseshit tax":spray:

[JanMichael]

5. Another crack in the market theory.

It's counter-productive for consumer and environment.

Bravo!

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. !

:crazy: :banghead: :argh:

[MindPilot]

9. Haven't these people ever heard of the "free market"?

For all the prattling they do about capitalism, they certainly don't seem to understand it very well. What would you call it if the US practiced a demand economy that favored big business? Corporate communism? Oh that's right, we already have a name for that, fascism.

[hfojvt]

12. that's a bad headline

It's more like "corporations working to make sure that energy conservation is not rewarded"