"So who is paying for the other half? Taxpayers, that's who. When the government subsidizes every gallon of gas to the tune of $5, it's all of us who pay in the end."
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-motorized-menace/Content?oid=4049343
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"So who is paying for the other half? Taxpayers, that's who. When the government subsidizes every gallon of gas to the tune of $5, it's all of us who pay in the end."
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-motorized-menace/Content?oid=4049343
Is this a mickey take in some way If not, WTF is going on at the end of the paragraph 5?
Edit-Having looked again, I am pretty sure it is a mickey take.
Apparently -
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Elly Blue writes parody of motoring economics--but using real facts.
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Maybe the joke is more obvious in the US..
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