NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman Calls for Tax to Keep Gas at $4 per Gallon
On Sunday's Face the Nation, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman denounced the proposed White House plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to curb rising gas prices: “That would rank in my top five worst ideas of 2011 so far…. one thing we should finally be doing is using this opportunity to have a credible energy policy that begins to reduce our addiction to oil.” Friedman's idea of “credible energy policy” was to force Americans to continue to pay higher gas prices: “Gasoline is almost $4 a gallon. We know that's a red line where people really start to change their behavior. At a minimum, I'd be talking about a tax that basically says we're going to keep it at $4. If it goes below we'll true it up, if it goes above that we're not going to touch it.” As TimesWatch's Clay Waters earlier reported on NewsBusters, for years Friedman has been obsessed with the idea of implementing higher gas taxes.
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NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman Calls for Tax to Keep Gas at $4 per Gallon
On Sunday's Face the Nation, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman denounced the proposed White House plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to curb rising gas prices: “That would rank in my top five worst ideas of 2011 so far…. one thing we should finally be doing is using this opportunity to have a credible energy policy that begins to reduce our addiction to oil.” Friedman's idea of “credible energy policy” was to force Americans to continue to pay higher gas prices: “Gasoline is almost $4 a gallon. We know that's a red line where people really start to change their behavior. At a minimum, I'd be talking about a tax that basically says we're going to keep it at $4. If it goes below we'll true it up, if it goes above that we're not going to touch it.” As TimesWatch's Clay Waters earlier reported on NewsBusters, for years Friedman has been obsessed with the idea of implementing higher gas taxes.
