On: US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

[yostrovs]

What subsidies for gasoline? Here we constantly fight over taxes on gasoline.

[cascom → yostrovs]

I think he just means that in relative terms gas taxes are lower in the US - but you’re right, there is no subsidy.

[amanaplanacanal → cascom]

Perhaps not today, but an argument could be made that a whole lot of tax money has been spent over the last several decades to make sure that middle east oil came to the US.

[dragonwriter → amanaplanacanal]

Very little of it came to the US; the money was spent to assure low world oil prices, not to assure that Middle East oil came to the US.