T.L. Friedman: Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ... ☛ „But for our long-term health, getting re-addicted to oil and gas guzzlers is one of the dumbest things we could do … In the wake of 9/11, President Bush had the political space to impose a gasoline tax, a ‚
Patriot Tax‘, to weaken the very people who had funded 9/11 and to stimulate a U.S. renewable-energy industry … As long as gas is cheap, people will go out and buy used S.U.V.’s and Hummers … A gasoline tax ‚is not just win-win; it’s win, win, win, win, win‘, says the Johns Hopkins author and foreign policy specialist Michael Mandelbaum. ‚A gasoline tax would do more for American prosperity and strength than any other measure Obama could propose‘“, New York Times, 27.12.2008