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Akerson told The Detroit News that, rather than have the government incrementally increase fuel efficiency standards over the next several years, “You know what I’d rather have them do — this will make my Republican friends puke — as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent or a dollar tax on a gallon of gas.”
“People will start buying more Cruzes and they will start buying less Suburbans,” he said.
Akerson isn’t the first representative of a major U.S. automaker to come out in favor of a higher gas tax….
https://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/06/08/gm-ceo-we-ought-to-just-slap-a-dollar-tax-on-a-gallon-of-gas/
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