tax policy affects behaviors. To argue otherwise kind of ignores reality. If they put a 10 dollar tax on gasoline per gallon, people would drive less. period.

“jobs lost” is not a compelling argument. If cigarettes were criminalized, there’d be lots of “jobs lost”. So what. Mere job loss is not what’s at issue. It’s the social benefit of the activity and whetehr it should be encouraged or discouraged. I have no particular opinion on cigarettes. i’ve recently had a strong urge to Start Smoking but am waiting for mroe research.

As to cars, emissions, C)2, industry…it’s open to debate, but it’s not some crazy wacko idea that GW is occuring, that we could be screed, and while it might be expensive to do soemthing about it, we should. I’m not saying we should, just that it’s not a wacko idea. Now, smoking giving you cancer, THAT’S a wacko theory that’s never really been proven…