The gas tax was still $0.18 4 months ago. In fact, it has been since 1993. If prices went back up you'd be paying something like $3.56 instead of $3.51 with my hypothetical 25% increase. If that breaks your budget, don't be one of the morons that increases the sales rate of low mileage vehicles every time the price of gasoline dips temporarily.

The reason you think the gas tax is enough is because we're not in a crisis yet. This isn't exactly what you wanted but perhaps you could google more than 2 minutes:

"Nationwide in 2010, state and local governments raised $37 billion in motor fuel taxes and $12 billion in tolls and non-fuel taxes, but spent $155 billion on highways.[3] In other words, highway user taxes and fees made up just 32 percent of state and local expenses on roads. The rest was financed out of general revenues, including federal aid."

http://taxfoundation.org/artic...

Here is some data from federal gas tax:

"During 2008 the fund required support of $8 billion from general revenue funds to cover a shortage in the fund. This shortage was due to lower gas consumption as a result of the recession and higher gas prices.[4] Further transfers of $7 billion and $19.5 billion were made in 2009 and 2010 respectively."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Heads are not rolling. They are doing whatever the opposite of rolling is.

So what? That doesn't inherently mean its wrong. Maybe you could point out flaws in their selection of republicans for their survey instead of worthless partisan speculation.

I use gas. I've called and written all of my congressmen to tell them they should raise the gas tax (not that that does any good). Now is a perfect time because if you raise it 25%, no one (aside from fox news et al) is going to notice the difference between $1.82 and $1.87 (gas tax is $0.18 right now). At the very least, index it to inflation.

And you can bet those institutions have ignored the (probably) 30-40 years of additional evidence and have not updated their projections in any way and because some guys were wrong once you can completely ignore everything that comes from whoever they happened to work for at the time in perpetuity.

Side note: A case could be made that in 2010 NYC was underwater...great recession and all...

Huh, never thought of using a rhetorical question as evidence to unequivocally settle one of the most important health issues we face today. All those doctors must feel silly having wasted all that time researching.

Fallon? Pisshhh, we were doing balls in your mouth back in highschool. ...no wait, not that way! Thats not what I meant!

You're probably joking or trolling but why the hell not?!

Cows produce huge amounts of it at regular intervals and its already part of the carbon cycle. Industrialized cattle farming (the cow forklift to slaughterhouse variety) probably releases enough methane to power itself. Plus they are likely located far from a power plant (wide open spaces and all) so you get back all the transmission losses as well! Sounds like a win win to me. Someone should get on it to see if it pans out. I know some farms already employ methane capture for power so why don't all of them?

Nahh, thats no fun. If we play the politics game we get some fun facts(ish): Obama has delivered Michelle Bachman's promise of $2 gas (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/19/michele-bachmann-stands-by-2-a-gallon-gas-pledge/) and is on track to deliver Mitt Romney's promise of 12M new jobs (or get real close anyway, 2.5M jobs are currently being added each year). Of course we all know the main connection between administrations and economic issues is taking credit when things are good and getting blamed when things are bad. (That said there are exceptions such as deregulation->mortgage crisis...getting off topic here)

If we want to be fair, these new methane regulations are merely holding oil producers accountable for the consequences of their activities. If that reduces production then its only reverting back to what it should have been all along had all costs been considered at the outset.

Side note: since those industrious oil scamps increased production all on their own without federal handouts (i.e. access to fed managed land) then we no longer need to consider drilling in ANWR and the like, right?

If congress defunds the EPA, a lot of US citizens will also find some balls....throughout their bodies. Some internally, some externally and some on their pre-existing balls themselves!!!

Is his complete failure to reduce production the reason you (likely) hate him? Since Obama took office, oil production has increased 50%:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hi...

The reason it's probably going to drop precipitously in the next few months/year is due to the whims of OPEC, not the administration. Do heartland states really want to tie your economies so tightly to how Arabs are feeling?

While fun to point out, I don't see that as especially relevant. The republicans of the early 1900's are in no way comparable to those we are living with today. Back then they were the progressive party. TR created the federal environmental conservation movement! 40ish years earlier, republicans freed the slaves! Unfortunately at some point, something went drastically awry*

*IM(logic based)O

Maybe, but you haven't proven that. You quoted cost per student. I quoted cost per tax payer, of which there are vastly more of. Second, this guy

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/d...

Says the cost per student is closer to $10k (if you add all the graphs). I'll give you that private school is still cheaper but for high school its pretty close.

Who modded you up? The federal government spends (not including loans) about $140B/year on education (http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/education-federal-budget). Thats out of $3.4T so just about 4%. Total tax income is only ~$2.5T so some of that 4% comes from debt but I'll give you the higher percentage anyway. The median tax bracket is 25% so on a salary of $50k/year, the average person has to pay about $500/year on federal education costs.

States spend about 40% on education (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2783). The average american has a 10% state tax burden (http://taxfoundation.org/article/annual-state-local-tax-burden-ranking-fy-2011) so they are paying about $2k to the state for education.

A rough estimate for total public education cost to "Most of us" is $2500. How many private schools have yearly tuition for less than that? Community colleges? Colleges? pre-schools???

Thanks for your uniformed and incorrect comment. Sometimes one of these inspires me to (internet) research the topic enough for a properly cited rebuttal and in the process I learn something. Hopefully you do too.

Classic. My favorite kind of idiot.

Nahh, you're playing the conspiracy advocate. In light of additional supporting evidence for the established story you're adding more layers of increasingly unlikely scenarios to support your predetermined conclusion. Don't worry, most humans are hard wired to do it.

Like someone above posted, using a NK IP address as a proxy is extremely unlikely since they only have about 1000 total IP addresses. Lucky for you, the conspiracy onion can support an infinite number of layers...so no, I can't prove it wasn't aliens.