Ass Backwards

[George Costanza]

To support its December rate-increase request, the Connecticut utility Yankee Gas Services said it needs more money because too many of its customers have lowered their bills by heeding calls to conserve energy.
[Connecticut Post, 12-10-05]

[George Costanza]

A November report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce included the proposal that Congress replenish the federal Highway Trust Fund by imposing a special tax on gas-saving hybrid cars (in that those cars consume less fuel than regular cars and therefore pay less in gasoline tax).
[Boston Globe-AP, 11-26-05]

[Ecstatic]

Both of those items are wack! It's ye olde taxman: "take a walk, I'll tax your feet--'cuz I'm the taxman."

[BeardedOne]

Both of those items are wack! It's ye olde taxman: "take a walk, I'll tax your feet--'cuz I'm the taxman."

But they have such talented writers. :)