From: Gene McAloon 

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.

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