No and no.
The Buffet deal is definitely being talked about. But no, that's not what I was talking about at all. This was a recent local news story and they said that the power company was saying that people were using less energy so they needed to raise the rates to keep making the same amount of money! Claudia and I were watching the local news that day while we were eating our lunch and both stopped and talked about how we couldn't believe the nerve of them. First they tell us to conserve...then they punish us for it.
As for the gas tax one...I wasn't talking about a blog/opinion post in the Washington Post.
I heard exactly what I said in my post on the radio from CBS news (they run CBS radio news breaks on the hour on the local radio station here).
The CBS reporter said that because newer cars were getting better gas mileage AND people were driving less (probably because of high gas prices)...Congress was considering raising the national tax on gasoline.
My feeling on that is that it will raise the price of everything...all food and pretty much everything you buy...because of higher cost to get it to you. In my mind it's a tax on the poor who drive cars.
People who don't drive don't care. People who make enough money that paying 70 dollars for a tank of gas doesn't bother them won't care.
But people struggling to get by who have to drive to work? It's gonna hit them hard. Gas is already too high.
It always seems that the people who don't have much money are the ones who get nailed the hardest by these kinds of taxes.
EDIT: Just looked up how much tax per gallon I'm paying here in Nevada. With state, local, and Federal taxes it comes up to 51 cents per gallon!!! That sucks.