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@Wonhyo Why not rasie the gas tax?
It depends on what level you want the price to land at. It is apparent that the gas companies are making big profits -- but public "demand limiting behaviour" sets the retail margin over cost. Raise the gas tax and for at least several cents the price of gas would not rise by the same amount -- it would come out of the oil company margin, and OPECs. At some point though gas prices would start to go up, when margins were squeezed too far
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