Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Unfortunately, we are all in this together. I wish there was a way to let you have your extra 18.4 cents per gallon in Federal gasoline taxes in gas taxes, and for you to lose access to the interstate highway system, and other things Federal gas taxes support. Unfortunately, it isn't practical so you'll have to live with the massive burden of an extra $100/year or so in operating expense. Be thankful you aren't using local toll roads, that can run you into thousands per year and is very inefficient--with a bunch of extra employees and effort to maintain a few miles of road.
You're a real cut-up, did you read any of the highway bill and see what our tax dollars are going towards? As I've said, the Interstate system as it was intended is complete. If Dallas needs a bigger capacity beltway, that's really not my problem- let Texas deal with it. The highway bill is chock full of pork and shameless vote buying by our legislators- that's what our fuel tax is funding, a big government slush fund. It was originally promised as only a temporary tax but, suprise, suprise- Congress keeps re-authorizing it. I wonder, has there ever been a case in the history of our government of a temporary tax that ever was actually temporary?

Now, back to peak oil... I invite everyone to read this rebuttal of the Hubbert curve model as it's being currently applied. As is the case with many climate models, it seems that it takes too many assumptions as given and historically, has shown itself to be error prone. Sure, oil is finite and production is bound to fall off sometime for one reason or another- but the Hubbert curve has too many unknowns and has been wrong too often to expect it to predict when oil will begin to deplete with any accuracy.