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		aidenn0 on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla Unveils New Finance Product So you are fine subsidizing oil companies by allowing them to externalize their costs? Also shipping is starting to switch to natural gas; you may think this a good or a bad thing, but a tax on diesel would increase that.

raverbashing on April 3, 2013 [–]

No, you do it by taxing gasoline and diesel

You can discriminate between uses in a way similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_diesel#reddiesel

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