10th May 2008, 6:43 PM
Your assumption isn't correct ABF. Higher gas prices mean people just get punished more. Gas is a necessary evil right now. What would you have the average person do? As it is most people are only really able to drive to work and back. Would you havce them stay home until they starve to death? Lots of people are barely able to get by, and these high gas prices could very well break them. There are no alternatives for most people. Car pools only work if you have a lot of coworkers who live near you (rarer than you think) and public transportation is only an option in some situations (and not an option at all for those like plumbers who need to drive constantly to other's houses).
This is NOT a good thing ABF. The solution isn't raise gas prices until our entire economy collapses, it's finding a new source of fuel and enabling those who are too poor to buy a new car to switch to it.
This is NOT a good thing ABF. The solution isn't raise gas prices until our entire economy collapses, it's finding a new source of fuel and enabling those who are too poor to buy a new car to switch to it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)