Sentences with phrase «taxed than gasoline»

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Growth in several tax revenue sources, such as volume - based fuel and gasoline taxes, is more closely aligned to the real economy (that is, real GDP) than the nominal economy.

The country would be spending billions in loans, tax incentives and price guarantees to lock in a technology that produces more greenhouse gases than gasoline does.

Davis, the University of California professor, argued that for fuel use to drop, taxes on gasoline and other fuels need to rise more than 10 cents.

Experts recommend you spend no more than 15 percent of your total monthly budget on all of your automotive expenses — including licenses, fees, taxes, insurance, maintenance and gasoline.

Now that diesel fuel is unusually expensive (hit much harder than gasoline, in % terms since 2002, in either Europe or the US), roads near markets are more crowded, and (hopefully, IMHO) a carbon tax is near, the competitive advantages that are opened by cheap transportation will sour in some cases, but continue in others.

I think that, particularly with presidential leadership, there could be more than 60 Democrats and Republicans in the Senate who could get behind the case for fueling an American energy quest this way, or with a directed 2 - cent - per - gallon nudge to the gasoline tax, which alone would triple our research budget compared to the pre-stimulus level.

• The RFS is a de facto tax on motorists because it requires them to consume ethanol, which, on an energy - equivalent basis, is significantly more expensive than gasoline.

Incomes tend to be much lower in farming areas than in cities, and this has made the government wary of raising taxes sharply on gasoline and diesel, even though steep fuel taxes might limit consumption.

The average U.S. gas tax of 47 cents per gallon, scarcely one tenth that in Europe, helps explain why more gasoline is used in the United States than in the next 20 countries combined.

Consumers would get a $ 7,000 tax credit for buying the vehicles, which will likely be significantly more expensive than traditional, gasoline - powered cars.

More than 90 % of people say they could handle paying an extra 36 - cent tax on each gallon of gasoline without feeling financially stressed.

Therefore it is only just that those who profit from the sale of petroleum and coal be taxed (a «carbon tax», which sounds less direct than, say, a gasoline tax, or a home - heating oil tax) with the proceeds of the tax to be paid back to citizens in various ways.

First, a fuel economy standard is shown to be at least six to fourteen times less cost effective than a price instrument (fuel tax) when targeting an identical reduction in cumulative gasoline use.

It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel - efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our «addiction to oil.»

Although this and some other pronouncements by Mankiw concern gasoline taxes rather than carbon taxes, they could be considered bold by a close adviser to the Romney for President campaign.

I will tell the American people that a higher tax on gasoline is better at encouraging conservation than are heavy - handed CAFE regulations.

MA at 396:» I submit that when the costs of AGW are internalized via a carbon tax, the higher price of gasoline will persuade more Hummer drivers to trade them for Priuses (or bicycles, if the price of gas goes high enough) than public shaming will.»

Within the transportation sector, the environmental damages per unit of fuel consumption are $ 3.80 (− 1.80 / +2.10) per gallon of gasoline using a 3 % discount rate, far larger than the current federal tax of $ 0.184 per gallon and more than 7x greater than the typical combined local, state and federal gasoline tax (additional negative externalities associated with gasoline use should be part of an optimal fuel tax).

Ian W.H. Parry (2005), Is Pay - As - You - Drive Insurance a Better Way to Reduce Gasoline than Gasoline Taxes?

One of them, commissioned by the Brookings Institute, suggests that adoption of this insurance model across the country could reduce driving by up to 8 % — more than a $ 1 - a-gallon gasoline tax, which would go a long way toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil supplies.