What will you do when they outlaw your car, and raise your taxes based on a pop-science theory?

Answer 1

Cry. And drive without a license plate. Ha.

I do love the whole "global warming" crap. But just think of what governmental policies/wars/bills/etc. we're being distracted from while they tell us how exhaling is increasing the world's temperature 1 degree every 4 breaths.

Answer 2

Oh, well. My car just sits in a parking lot and rarely gets used anyway. It's just a huge waste of money. I spend approx. $500 a month to pay for the thing and its insurance. And that doesn't include the gas, maintenance, or the $499 I spent this year on taxes for it.

I use public transportation to get around 90% of the time. The rest of the time I carpool with a friend. And guess what? I like it. So many people think they neeeeeeed a car. Move into a high-density area and you don't need a car.

So if my car was outlawed, good. If it's ruining the planet so that my children and grandchildren can't enjoy it, outlaw it. Civilized people find solutions. Just because you (the person who asked this question) don't like the solutions doesn't mean they were based on pop-science theory.

Answer 3

Well, I would take public transit, but that's only available in the city and the nearest bus stop is a little over 10 miles away. I'd buy a horse to solve the transportation problem. It would be cheaper to keep a horse and buggy than it is to drive a car these days anyways. Raise my taxes again though and i'm with the guy and the revolution! The Revolutionary war was fought, in large part, over taxes. Those taxes equaled approximately a 3% income tax. We pay about 30% these days, but no one seems to mind.....

Answer 4

I've already done it. I gave my truck away 2 years ago, and unlike anyone I know, I ride the bus to work. I live in Northern California, where it's almost a requirement to have a car.

Being a pedestrian now, I notice that when a car passes near me, or I touch it - it's HOT and it's full of FUMES. A wave of heat can be felt as it passes by. That's not good, especially if there are millions of these heat and fume producers.

I borrow cars when i need them, but don't need them a lot.

I also notice that I walk and exercise more and don't even know it. I don't go to drive-in fast food very much. I also don't buy as much - especially if I have to carry it! I don't pay for car insurance, gasoline or car maintenance.

We should add 5% per year onto gas taxes to pay for the greening of our country. Roads need to be maintained, transit has to be improved and enlarged and our thinking needs to return to our natural pioneering roots.

Answer 5

I already pay excessive fees for my car because of government support for that industry's self-serving engineering practices.

My taxes are already excessive because of benefits, credits, and deductions given to religious, corporate and other bloodsuckers.

Pop-science at least has a basis in reality. These other parasites provide no reason at all for leaching away my precious resources.

Answer 6

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.............

............... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security............

Answer 7

They are already planing on taking away out incandescent light bulbs. I wouldn't be surprised when you won't be able to have a classic car. You will have to own some type of alternative fuel car.

Answer 8

Look for another way to get around and pay my taxes.

We get this all the time. Ethanol is a joke as far as saving energy is oconcerned and it is paid for with tax dollars.

Answer 9

Science isn't about what's popular. It's about observations that are made in the real world. You have a very big imagination.

Answer 10

That will never happen. Politicians would never make it impossible for people to go to work. Where would they get their money if we are all sitting around and not making money to pay taxes and their outrageous salaries. They need us to have our cars. We are money making machines for them.