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It's both sad and ironic that the most gullible out there have been calling for $5 gasoline for years in some misguided fantasy scenario (which generally involved some smirking satisfaction at the follies of SUV owners). Now that they're getting their wish in part, they start complaining that the integrated supermajors like Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and BP are making all the money instead of their wet dream fantasy that it would be collected in excise taxes. Which I guess they figured would go to buying their "enlightened" asses a new Prius to drive to the local Starbucks to buy a cup of "Fair Trade" mochiatta. Instead the Che Guevara wannabe's are finally figuring out what everyone else with half a brain knew for years, that the idiotic gasoline excise taxes only hurt those struggling and driving the used 1986 Honda Civic hatchback, not the folks in the 2005 Canyoneros they love to hate so much.
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