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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] Samantha:Your repeated proposition that gasoline should be taxed at a high enough level to pay for our ongoing military interference in the middle east makes it very hard to not turn this into a political conversation.I won't mention it again if you don't.[/quote]My latest post did not say anything about gasoline wearing the cost of our military interference in the Middle East.  You must be referring to a previous post.What I have said, in essence, is that the price of fossil fuels should wear the cost of maintaining a naval presence in the Middle East to keep the oil sea lanes open.  I did not mention Afghanistan or Iraq, which I would dub military interference.  The U.S. has maintained a naval presence in the Middle East for more than three decades.  Doing so has been supported by Republican and Democratic administrations.  The military analysts that I have read say that it is there to protect, in part, the sea lanes through which Middle East oil flows to Europe and the United States.  There is nothing political about this observation.
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