MIT Gas Tax Debate - Part 1

Rising gas prices is such a hot-button issue for politicians, that no presidential candidate will ever publicly support a gas tax. But could a higher U.S. gas tax benefit the environment, security, economy and innovation in this country? The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics decided to stage its own mock presidential debate - so that both sides of this issue could finally be addressed. (There are two parts to this video)

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• tax
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• presidential
• MIT
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• Energy

[ismwaek]

Umm, I have a question, I am working with the Boy Scouts of America so that they can earn their Communications badge, and they have to watch a debate, and I was wondering if it would be at all possible to show this to them as it is a classic example of a formal debate, and I feel it would help them understand it with out having to bring in current political standings.

[MITCTL]

Please feel free to share this with your boy scout troop. And afterwards, we would love to hear how about how they responded to it.

[dpierce3]

Simple - rebate $2000 on every 1040 ONLY THEN tax gas $2.00 per gallon and then let the consumer make the choice.

Buy a Yaris or Prius - save $1000 a year,

drive a Hummer spend $2000 extra a year

Walk to work or share a ride - save $2000

Break the stranglehold of foreign oil

Regain our World prestige and shrink our carbon footprint while improving our budget deficit balance of trade and National Debt all at once

[bamf2733]

Tax incentives for renewable energy companies and users. WE MUST FIND RENEWABLE ENERGY. TAX THE BIG OIL COMPANIES, THEIR MAKING 11 BILLION PER YEAR!!!! THAT CAN'T BE GOOD FOR OUR ECONOMY!