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OPINION 4A T HE D AILY A STORIAN Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 The revenue-neutral gas tax By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Washington Post Writers Group puts money in his pocket. This is nuts. If you simply set a higher price W petroleum. I’ve got as much chance this time The point is exclusively to SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager But I shall tilt my lance once more. The only time you can even think of proposing a gas tax increase is when oil prices are at rock bottom. years ago, oil was selling C Clatsop County has a chance for vigorous self-examination the pump has fallen in the last three months by more its overall health with a potentially big payoff. As a result, some in Congress are talking about WAY TO WELLVILLE chosen to participate in the Way Tuesday 5:30 to 7 p.m. Seaside High School library, 11901 North Holladay Drive: Wednesday 5:30 to 7 p.m., Warrenton High School library, 1700 S.E. Main Court. their own, choosing fuel the maw of a government Charles Krauthammer ciency remains, but the extra money to consume gasoline. them not only promotes growth but The average American buys about 12 gallons of gas a week. being a regressive tax that ing classes far more than the rich. As for oil, we remain sumer. We burn more output, almost twice as much as the next nearest sumption in two ways. occurs every time gasoline prices plunge. A high gas tax encourages healthy living in communities high. The beauty of the The average American buys about Which is a geopolitical coup. miscreants. pollutants, though relatively minor, global warming skeptics, there’s no reason not to welcome a benign unique opportunity to maintain our the perennial price spikes that follow We’ve blown this chance at least places in Michigan, California, mer French Foreign Minister Jean microscope. Each will create a Tillamook counties. Bonnie Thompson, communities’ overall health. The chief ufacture acres of unsellable cars again. France, the Crucible of Europe As well as employment issues, Clatsop County will focus on: By ROSS DOUTHAT New York Times News Service T • Access to primary health vicious terrorist attack last the crucial test case. It has Even without the prospect as geography, that has to All are areas where Clatsop region’s selection is a giant plus. Ross Douthat recent years. lack, here’s a chance to enhance our community in a positive way. globe, France has seen its relative prove recovery is possible Continuing to live with them requires sophisticated wildlife management D Unless, of support for the Islamic rival forces, from Britain’s navies to where on the Continent. Not surprisingly, the response to might of American popular culture. than elsewhere in Western Europe, ies have been thrown into relief by politically. ect will fall apart or be completely Either way, France’s star may rise ty, Marine Le Pen’s National Front, whose electoral clout is now likely haunting contemporary France: fears espite famous successes like back from the brink of extinction, the environment for eons before humans were on the scene. species as suffering something the ripples from French economic stagnation, of become increasingly necessary as the Continent’s elite. at least an extremely tough path for any human activities in their proximity. only will alterations in the climate France isn’t actually coming more important, more central to the fate example of a more hopeful will inevitably create even more No, the age of the Muslims are regarded more favorably in France than elsewhere in Western Europe. sion, it’s more likely to thing more pervasive more likely to happen nomic patterns there’s an important their birth. return. But politically, culturally, even for people. Washington state with this will not only take technical intellectually, events in France over again the place where strong forces expertise on the part of biologists, the fringe to the mainstream, it will they want public comments but political sophistication on the more than at any point since before about taking them off the state’s part of agencies. California sea lions, recovery is not only gratifying, but also ones might soon be born. or any other actor, it’s in France that future is unwritten. If there is real state waters. They were taken off healthy population, sea lions make for problematic neighbors. to Northern California grew from Keeping them robustly healthy belle France. Where to write • U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of human animosity will require a (D) state.or.us • State Rep. Deborah Boone (D) Oregon, at least for now. Although many coastal people nature confront the problems we’re causing will be one of a noteworthy milestone. Careful lion restoration hints that we’re up be a meaningful intervention to the task. • Port of Astoria • U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D): senate.gov • State Rep. Brad Witt (D): • State Sen. Betsy Johnson (D): • Clatsop County Board of Commissioners
