Dingell, who has been a Mich Rep since I was 8, and still learning
to steal hubcaps, tends to push the "flat earth/everyone should have
50 cts in their pockets" approach; it has served him well for 5
decades in MI, the home of the "Company is screwing me over"
blue collar brigade, imo.

Besides my disregard for him and the entire political gang in DC,
the basic issue is not going to be fixed by a rip off tax on gas
and other petroleum based fuels. And, that proposed FiftyCent
would be p issed away like 99% of the revs the Gov't takes in...

They could "earmark" those monies for "energy reform", "alt fuels",
moonbeam cars, whatever, but about 10cts on the dollar would
ever find its way to that earmark and, if/when it did, that too
would be wasted on do nothing projects and a few more layers
of bureaucrats, in charge of that moonbeam project, imo.

If we are hoping Gov't is gonna fix us, we are hoping to hit the
Lotto, too.