On May 13, 3:35 am, Bible Bob <bible...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:43:19 -0500, Rod <icom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Merlin wrote:
> >> you mean christians are attacking.
>
> >> it is a christian president that is torturing people.
> >> it is a christian president trying not to give aid to katrina
> >> it is a chrsitain president creating false wars to suggest the world
> >> is ending.
>
> >> it is christians that have bombed and killed people at women's health
> >> clinics.
> >> it is christians that have killed and bashed lgbt community members.
> >> it is chrsitains that believed in slavery.
> >> it is christains that believe in segregation.
>
> >> what happened to jesus message of love?
> >> what happened to jesus message of kindness?
> >> what happened to peace on earth and good will toward all.
>
> >> christians are teaching us how they want they wish to be treated.
> >> when we see christians organizing to take people's rights away.
> >> when we see christians trying to write hate into the constitution.
> >> we can some day say, that was the beginning of constitutional
> >> protection for everyone.
> >> that these days will be seen as the beginning of the great rights
> >> debate.
> >> the right of christians to hate people so much they harm them is
over.
> >> the right of christians to demean people for jesus in public is over.
> >> the rights of christian are as up for grabs as they persue the lack
of
> >> rights for others.
>
> >> in love with the living gay jesus,
>
> >> merlin
>
> > Are you seeing something now that you've not witnessed before ??
> >Welcome to the club Merlin
>
> Rod,
>
> What do you think?
>
> What if the Government moved some of the oil reserves to produce
> diesel and maybe dropped the federal tax on diesel fuel? Think that
> would help truck drivers and lower trans****tation costs? Seems to me
> there are fewer trucks than cars and that people would be appreciative
> of lower food costs resulting from lower trans****tation costs.
>
> Bob
JERRY
Won't work. Gas prices are set by supply and demand. Demand has been
rising because the OPEC nations have cut down on production since at
least 2005.
Even if the government were to drop the gas taxes, the oil companies
are not obliged to drop the price of gas correspondingly since people
are willing to pay the current price to get gas. Therefore, the only
thing that happens by dropping the taxes is that the gas company CEO's
get a nice little windfall.
Plus, those gas taxes go to fixing roads, repairing and inspecting
bridges and other trans****tation infrastructure. The government needs
that money to ensure the roads are as safe as they can make them
(other drivers notwithstanding).
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