More tax on oil is not the answer

George Krzesinski's post from Oct. 18 was about 180 degrees away from what should be done. Following his line of thought, all the euro countries, which heavily tax oil and energy, should have come up with a solution already to oil dependency years ago.

Fuel outside of the U.S. is easily double what we pay, yet the price per barrel is the same for all, so the difference is taxation.

This windfall of taxes in Europe has subsidized each government, not gone to alternative fuel research. It won't here, either. In fact, as taxes are assimilated into government (to be redistributed), alternative fuel research is likely to be suppressed as now our government would have to derive this fuel tax revenue elsewhere.

Giving money to the government is like giving drugs to an addict, it will only create more demand.

Government will now have the revenue to expand and expand again. You can forget about research or an answer to oil dependency ever being found if taxes to fuel are increased.

Ric Nuccio

Bloomingdale