A Green would probably suggest that there would be savings in lung-related illnesses paid for by the government, or by the future cash flows saved from not having to deal with the destruction of our climates due to greenhouse gases.mquast53000 wrote:Here is a good question for all of you: What is the US & Montana Government going to do when people start buying hybrid cars and stop buying so much gas. Where are they going to make up that lost tax revenue? One of the last times I spoke with Denny Rehberg he was saying that the Government is concerned with the likelihood of a sharp decrease in gas sales, and thus there would be a sharp decrease in taxes collected from these sales. Where is the Government going to make up these lost dollars?
I don't think either of those would really come into play, though. However, if we did see a dramatic reduction of gas sales (and especially if we were ever to hit zero) just think how much less cash we would have to spend on military and foreign aid to prop up the oil pumping governments in the eternal trainwreck known as the Middle East? We could just build a big wall around it and let them kill each other for the rest of eternity (since that's just what they do) without us caring about them. That would be cool.