ABC's Pleads for European-style Gas Tax

"Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday aggressively lobbied for the Obama administration to install a European-style gas tax on the United States. Talking to Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, about Obama's plans for increased fuel standards, she began,

"Why not just go to a gas tax, for instance, which would accomplish a reduction in the use of gasoline, dependence on foreign oil [?] right away?"

Sawyer would proceed to ask variations on this question six times...

[I heard it, and not once was it recognized that tax gas doesn't reduce 'foreign dependence' by a single gallon, it just makes it cost more.

The honest way to reduce our 'dependence on foreign oil' is to drill more of it here - but that alternative was never mentioned.]

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