18 cents per gallon in US is Federal tax that goes to the Interstate Highway Fund
State taxes vary
In Kansas it is additional 26 cents per gallon tax that goes directly to the Kansas Department of Transportation.  And we have a very highly maintained highway and road system because of it.

We jumped to $3.47 from $3.38 in a week.

http://ooida.truckmiles.com/page.asp?pg=FuelPrices.asp

That link will show you how much fuel taxes vary by state in the US.

paul wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 6:20am:



You also do not have the natural resources that the US has with regards to crude oil reserves, shale oil, natural gas, coal, etc. Not to mention that the UK could fit in to the state of Texas over four times! The UK's population is just over 61 million. The USA's population is over 330 million! Quite the difference, huh?!

Our horrid president could lower the price of gasoline (and every other consumable) with one speech. Liberals are desperately trying to claim that he won't drill because of some insane moral reason. That is crap! He won't offer to drill because he wants to redistribute wealth period! Who suffers? The poor! Do any liberals here really think Obummer gives two shits about the poor?! Really?! LOL!


Oh, and to try and make the claim that the US could follow Europe's example on health care is a joke. (Not that you did mind you....) Ask the women of the UK who are constantly refused the most effective prescriptions for breast/ovarian cancer how great "free health care" is! The mortality rate for cancer is considerably higher in all of Europe than it is in the USA. It's not even close in fact. Here are a few facts that liberals can't, or won't, answer for---

Fact No. 1:  Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1]  Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom.  Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway.  The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

Fact No. 2:  Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.[2]  Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.

Fact No. 3:  Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.[3]  Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease.  By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Fact No. 4:  Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.[4]  Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:

•Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
•Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.
•More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
•Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).
Fact No. 5:  Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.  Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent).  Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649

As for public education? Keep in mind, liberals run our education system...


I'm asking any liberal on this board to explain this video to me?! Answer for this libs!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piPkgAUo0w

We spend more per child for our public education than any Western country on the planet, and we see the results of that boondoggle! Crap! Liberals continue to say, "Spend more on education!" Yet the results suck! Why should I, the taxpayer, be forced to pay more for a system that does not work, and does work by design?! The money does not go to the kids! Only the most brainwashed among believe that crap! The unions in the US education system are designed to help two groups of people period-the teachers, and the Democrats. It's a ponzi scheme. Liberals tell the students to go to hell.


Liberalism is a lie. Period. The end.

Progressivism is regressive. Period. The end.


Oh, and btw, I drive a 2005 Lincoln Towncar 4.6 liter V8, and I love it, thank you very much! Plus if I hit a tree I live, the tree dies. The moron that drives that crap little tin can car dies, and the tree lives.




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sweetcharmedlife wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 12:00pm:



Hey SCL you may not like it, but at least I'm doing my best to keep things civil. Unlike you, I might add. Every single thing that I just posted is 100% true and provably so. I have provided links, and even a video that proves that the NEA outgoing president admits that the union is all about power and has dick all to do with educating kids. Would you care to address any of the points that I raise? Or are you just going to continue to offer personal insults? It must suck to have to argue for the man-child president when there are zero facts to back up such a specious argument, and empty point of view.


Stay classy SCL!! 



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