1st September 2005, 10:58 PM
Look ABF, I tend to agree with you on a lot of things, but DO NOT TAX GAS!
We don't need alcohol and smoking, but we NEED our fossile fuels just to LIVE every frickin day! If it gets to the point where we have to stop driving to some places, guess what? Well, it already is for some people! What, do you WANT for people to not be able to drive to WORK, get fired, and DIE?! THEY WILL DIE! They will not get their fuel and die a pathetic death!
You have to realize we NEED to use that fuel. You might as well say "if you want them to eat less, make it impossible for them to afford food".
Sorry, but I am watching as many families are going without a lot of things just because of the fuel tank. Admittedly, they made many mistakes in life that lead to these rises in gas prices actually affecting them, but you can't just say the solution is raising the price even more. If they can no longer afford the gas, they immediatly lose the ability to live their lives. "carpooling" is not an option if every single person comes from vastly far away places in a radius to the point that everyone ends up paying the same price either way due to the vastly increased driving distances.
No, that is not a solution.
The solution is to be found in scientific study and invention. There are many projects in the works, some with more promise than others, but that's where the solution lies. Hey, maybe, if the laws of physics don't forbid it, we can start tearing space-time a new one and just skipping around the planet in an instant, but more realistically, the issue is in finding an alternative fuel that actually yields more energy than the energy needed to release that energy.
We don't need alcohol and smoking, but we NEED our fossile fuels just to LIVE every frickin day! If it gets to the point where we have to stop driving to some places, guess what? Well, it already is for some people! What, do you WANT for people to not be able to drive to WORK, get fired, and DIE?! THEY WILL DIE! They will not get their fuel and die a pathetic death!
You have to realize we NEED to use that fuel. You might as well say "if you want them to eat less, make it impossible for them to afford food".
Sorry, but I am watching as many families are going without a lot of things just because of the fuel tank. Admittedly, they made many mistakes in life that lead to these rises in gas prices actually affecting them, but you can't just say the solution is raising the price even more. If they can no longer afford the gas, they immediatly lose the ability to live their lives. "carpooling" is not an option if every single person comes from vastly far away places in a radius to the point that everyone ends up paying the same price either way due to the vastly increased driving distances.
No, that is not a solution.
The solution is to be found in scientific study and invention. There are many projects in the works, some with more promise than others, but that's where the solution lies. Hey, maybe, if the laws of physics don't forbid it, we can start tearing space-time a new one and just skipping around the planet in an instant, but more realistically, the issue is in finding an alternative fuel that actually yields more energy than the energy needed to release that energy.
"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)