America needs therapy
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Mon Oct 1 11:05:27 PDT 2001
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 09:55:34AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Besides which, the true cost of gasoline at the pump would be
> $10-15 @ gallon without all the gov't subsidies to the oil industry.
>
> http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm
The study says $5.60 to $15.14, not $10-15.
A quick glance find some glaring errors--
-it completely ignores taxes paid by the oil industry.
-under Environmental Health and social costs they count:
"noise pollution ($6 to $12 billion), and improper disposal of batteries,
tires, engine fluids, and junked cars ($4.4 billion) also add to the
environmental consequences wrought by automobiles."
It's quite a stretch to claim those as costs of oil. We'd have
significant costs for those kind of items even if we all used electric cars
or even horse and buggy. Although I suppose that unlike
a car's engine, when your horse fails, you can eat it.
Eric
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