Even if his plan were implemented, it would result in an economic disaster later. Why? Because the alternative energy would be being subsidized by the gasoline industry, thus causing a false cost effectiveness. Once the balance moved far enough over to the alternative energy side, the gas subsidy would no longer be enough to sustain the alternative side and energy prices would skyrocket and the economy would crash.

The biggest reason for the economic problems we are experiencing right now are because of the oil speculators driving the price of oil to $140+ per barrel. Energy costs are the foundation of any industrial economy. Using the cheapest energy is the best way to allow the economy to grow. There is NOTHING cheaper than oil as long as oil is under $50 per barrel. Because the rise to $140 a barrel was artificially driven, the drop will go further down than necessary too until it settles at a more stable price of between $40 - $50. Unless it is artificially affected again.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

You gave the genius another great idea to add to all the others he has up his sleeve. I have my own idea Tom. Why don't all you overpaid liberal blabbermouths open up your wallets and send some extra cash to the IRS.

Thankfully Brokaw is off the air.

The hubris felt and expressed by liberals after Obama's election is astonishing. A $3 per gallon gas tax? Go ahead, Barack. Propose and push it. It will be his "don't ask don't tell" moment, the equivalent of Bill Clinton's bait and switch tax cut promise during the '92 presidential election.

Obama is smart. He knows how utterly destructive a tax like this would be to his administration, and he must have winced inwardly while watching Brokaw's stupid face and ignorant pie hole blow this manure in his direction.

And, part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of responsibility

Okay Obama, why not make yourself and all the other elected officials responsible for your failed policies, like Social Security, Medicare, schools, etc.? Why not give up YOUR special perks and be forced to live just like us poor working saps, with a government gun held to our heads not allowing us to keep what we earn?

D

Impeach Obama!

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

let's start with this; all Americans -ooops excluding liberals- get gas cards that will debit money out of your personal account and those of other liberals who also thinks that is a great idea..

Hooray for $4 gas!!!

Wasn't Brokaw the one who said after the election that we really don't know a lot about Obama??

He seemed to think that was just fine before he was elected, so why would he press Obama now about anything????

   53% of the drivers out there voted for Obama. That means they are IDIOTS. I don't trust idiots to make safe driving decisions.

  So I need to drive a big car with lots of metal between me and the Obama voter.

  Also, the liberal media is really starting to lose their collective mind. You want to see real anger from small town America. Put a $2 a gallon tax on gasoline. The revolution to bring back the Constitution will arrive quicker than you think. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Brokaw consistantly claimed McCain would be the better commander in chief. As for his suggestions regarding gasoline tax, he's an idiot period.

And please stop the socialism fear-mongering. Yes we all have to pay taxes, it's where firetrucks come from. How do we proport to support our troops and yet complain about paying for their equipment? The VA Hospital condition is the perfect example, these men and women deserve the absolute finest care but the fed dropped the ball. Not entirely Bush's fault, but this is shameful. If Obama in any way corrects the problem it will be even more of a black eye.

I've got to remember Brokaw's arrogant suggestion so when someone asks me to give an example of an elitist statement, I'll have a perfect one at the ready...

I have to drive 90 round trip miles a day for my meager paying job. When gas was near 4-bux, one day's worth of wages went to gassing up my car, even though it gets 30mpg. Not only that, the cost of all things had gone up because of transpo costs.

Take a hike and earn a living like some of us less fortunate folk who don't have the privilege of being shuttled at corporate expense to your work gig, or get paid thousands of dollars for speaking. Then you'll feel the pain of eeking out a living like the rest of us red state citizens.

Brokaw, Rather, Cronkite.  Actually, weren't they tv news stars even amongst conservatives?  Were they like this all along?  I got turned off to Cronkite years later when I heard his statement about not being able to win in Vietnam.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

If the market dictates, and oil and gas via oil, are a global market, that the price of a gallon is $1.00, then we will have to pay it. If it dictates that the price of a gallon is $10.00, then we will have to pay that too. The price for goods and services is predicated on cost. It is all for the most part, driven by fuel. If energy prices are down, goods cost less, travel costs less, more people get out more and have more to spend in other sectors.

It's bad enough that brokaw and "that one" are so stupid as to think that the govt. should dictate gas prices, but it is even worse that they either are too dumb to know or don't care that this will cause other sectors to suffer, possibly leading to job losses in greater numbers than even we have seen recently.

As an aside, I think a good portion of those losses were seasonal and that there will be a rebound in Jan.

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

This is what you get when the nerves and muscles that control the mouth are connected to a boiled turnip.  As Brokaw's bio relates it, "Tom Brokaw dropped out of the University of Iowa, where he says he majored in "beer and co-eds"..."  He later gets a political science degree.  This, of course, makes him an expert on economics.

Another one of those empty-headed pretty boys who should have his mouth surgically sealed by court order.

Tom Brokaw, as with so many journalists, have long claimed to be for the underdog, the little guy...you know the drill. And yet, as with so many Hollyweird sorts, journalists live in pricey gated communities, with limousines taking them to and from work. So what's a huge tax hike to clowns such as Mr. Brokaw? Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?

Well goody, then maybe Tommy can send me a gas card gift certificate for Christmas, oh in his term Xmas.  I can only hope that Tommy has lots of stock in the NYT, ABC, and NBC.  That would certainly fix his wagon. 

I  yam what I yam....Popeye.

I yam what I yam....Popeye.