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The cars with the world's highest gas mileage are in Italy, a country that also has the some of the world's highest gas taxes. For decades, Europeans, over all, have used gasoline taxes to build better developed mass transit and more bike and pedestrian trails. Let's call America's higher gas tax a "user fee."

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June 27, 2007, 12:48 a.m.
Every fiscal quarter, the user fee should go up a dime (40 cents a year), until the fee reaches the average amount of Europe's gasoline "user fees." This won't destroy the US economy, and it requires no new bureaucracy because, after all, gas is already taxed.
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I don't think it will destroy the US economy either, but there are many who would disagree, and that's what they use for everything ... controlling carbon emissions, lowering the maximum speed limit, etc. etc. All will destroy the economy.

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