[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:29:04PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> It's not penalising car travel. It is making car users pay the full
> costs of their travel (instead of it being paid by everybody).

Right, but the externality comes _directly_ from burning fossil fuels
to fill up the atmosphere with unwanted cardon dioxide.  So why not
just tax the fossil fuels?

Oh, of course they can't do that because of stupid "fuel protests" by
the driving lobby.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat UK Limited
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