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Former GM Exec Bob Lutz Suggests Higher Gas Taxes Would Help Americans

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 27, 2013July 8, 2020

Americans are addicted to gasoline, according to retired General Motors Vice Chairman Robert A. Lutz, and there’s only one cure: higher gas taxes. Lutz, who

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Tax Breaks For Big Oil Back In The News

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 9, 2011

The soaring price of gasoline is definitely attracting some attention these days. According to the most recent data available, it will cost you, on average,

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Is A Tax By The Mile Coming Down The Road?

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 6, 2011

This week, a proposal to tax cars by the mile seemed to take the country by surprise. But, yawn, it’s actually so 2009. Two years

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Senate: Oil & Gas Industry Tax Breaks Remain

Kelly Phillips ErbJune 16, 2010May 19, 2020

The Senate failed to say no to $35 billion worth of tax breaks for the oil and gas industry on yesterday. I know, double negatives.

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Gas Tops $4/Gallon, IRS Finally Ups Mileage Rate

Gas Tops $4/Gallon, IRS Finally Ups Mileage Rate

Kelly Phillips ErbJune 23, 2008December 4, 2019

It cost me nearly $50 to fill my tank this week – $50! And I drive a pretty fuel efficient car. Gas in my home

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Fun Friday Wraps Up And We’ve Concluded: Gas Is Expensive!

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 23, 2008

Fun Friday has wrapped up on the channel – there are lots of great posts about the price of gas and how it affects each

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Who Gets The Gas Face?

Who Gets The Gas Face?

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 12, 2008December 4, 2019

Have you ever heard of the “gas face”? Tisa, over at Talk Stock Trading, refers to a gas face as “a somewhat stressed look of

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The Holiday Gas Tax Doesn’t Make Sense Or Why 200 Economists Can’t Be Wrong

Kelly Phillips ErbMay 6, 2008

Interesting commentary on CNN about why the gas tax doesn’t make sense and why it won’t pass. Pay particular attention to the projected savings to

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Would A Gas Tax Holiday Help… Or Hurt?

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 30, 2008

Both McCain (GOP) and Clinton (Dem) have called for a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax – or a gas tax holiday – for

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Gas Prices Killing You?

Kelly Phillips ErbApril 16, 2008

You can pray for McCain’s gas tax holiday. You can walk more. You can carpool. Or you can consider not driving a car that takes

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