FLCC> Is the NY State Senate nuts?

[Mike F]

You said
> the waste of an opportunity to let the market, for once, work 
> its so-called magic in the right direction.

Do you really think that anything resembling a free market applies to the handling of gasoline or oil in our economy?

But for many reasons, I'd still agree that the NY State Senate is filled with nuts.  :-)

Mike

> To: BHV at icycle.org; flcc at icycle.org
> From: wlodico at stny.rr.com
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 08:36:20 -0400
> Subject: FLCC> Is the NY State Senate nuts?
> 
> "Yes," is probably the charitable answer.  We can think of other  
> things to call them. "Panderers," "Snake oil salesmen," are high on  
> the list.
> 
> Yesterday, 5/7/08, the New York State Senate passed a bill, S7594-B,  
> suspending state gasoline/motor fuel taxes Memorial Day through Labor  
> Day.
> 
> We can leave it to the economists to discuss the impact of this bill  
> with respect to the potential for increased demand and consumption of  
> motor fuel, increase in cost, increased dependence on imported oil,  
> etc, etc.
> 
>  From our perspective as cyclists, it looks like exactly the wrong  
> way to go.  More, bigger, cars squeezing us off the roads; less money  
> for roadways; more pot holes, cracks, and broken pavement; and the  
> waste of an opportunity to let the market, for once, work its so- 
> called magic in the right direction.
> 
> Can anyone find a roll call for the Senate vote?  In the meantime,  
> here's a summary of the homework they did, before passing the bill, from
> 
> http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi
> 
> "FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
> "To be determined.
> 
> "LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
> "To be determined."
> 
> Bread and circuses, anyone?
> 
> Hopefully better sense will prevail in the Assembly and the  
> Governor's office.
> 
> You can help them on that front:
> 
> http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
> 
> http://www.state.ny.us/governor/contact/index.html
> 
> 
> 
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