From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:13:49 -0500, Gene McAloon
 wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:40:37 -0400, Richard B. 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:09:50 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think it needs to go to $4.00/gal to smoke out the most hardcore -
>>
>> I was thinking $5 when I wrote to Geo, but it needs to ascend to that
>> level quickly so people feel the pain instead of conditioning
>> themselves to accept it.
>>
>> - Richard
>
> Rationing gas use through pricing is inherently unfair. It is a typical
> Republican approach that disadvantaged those not well off, while
> imposing no
> hardship whatsoever on the affluent.
>
> Worse yet for that approach, it doesn't work. Europe has had very high
> gas
> prices since the '70, equivalent to your $5.00 a gallon price, yet that
> hasn't
> cut into gas use in the slightest. Except in big cities where public
> transportation is cheap and easily accessible, the car is no longer a
> luxury but
> rather a necessity and in many cases a sole means of getting around,
> even back
> and forth to a job or in the suburbs back and forth to the train station.
>
> Raising the gas price is a self-serving approach that only a Republican
> would
> take seriously.
>
>
>

Then Kerry must have been a Republican when he advocated a $0.50/gallon
increase in gas taxes.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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