Speakeasy forum: Pump Price Rant

Maybe the horse will too. It might help if more people made efforts to live closer to their workplace too. Every day there are thousands of workers in Baltimore who drive to DC for work, and thousands that drive from DC to Baltimore for work. Many of those workers have similar job skills. Employers should concentrate first on hiring those who are nearest or willing to move closer. Communities need to change traffic flow so there are fewer red lights. Older neighborhoods which have every residential street opening onto main avenues could have many of those streets dead ended so residents all entered and left the neighborhood only through several light controlled accesses. That cuts down on some traffic lights, allow longer flow rates on major roads. Many newer neighborhoods are already built that way and it helps in crime control too.

Lower the taxes we pay at the pump somewhat....

Drill for more oil in Alaska and places that we don't touch, and do more exploring....

Count your blessings. Gas prices are much higher in almost every other country in the world. Somehow they cope.

Which saves the auto gas for lousy days if you ride on the nice ones.

Cindi

for all of the gas guzzlers out there that people insist on driving as status symbols. America's wasteful thirst is a big variable in the demand. Let those that are too concerned with their image to worry about conservation bear the burden of their actions.

If they can afford a Hummer they can afford $10 a gallon....

The gummint? I thought you were a libertarian of some sort!

especially those who can afford it the least.

The "luxury tax" on boats impacted boat builders, people who provision boats, charter companies and their employees, etc.

The urge to punish the rich always leads to misery for the poor. Very very bad idea.

You will see a lot of older cars with big V-8s that were probably handed down in the family or bought for a couple hundred bucks. These always seem to belch smoke and sound awful. No doubt they gobble up the gas. I suppose these folks can't afford the 15 grand (and up) prices of the smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles.....and maybe wouldn't do so if they could.

Oh come on! You don't really believe that do you?

I don't think doubling the price is quite the right solution. I do believe that low volume users have subsidized the higher prices we have paid, for the past couple of years, because I know that my "demand" for gasoline, in the cycle of "supply and demand" price adjustments never went up .

It would be nice if you get to pay a low price for your first 20 gallons of the month... a higher price for you second 20 gallons and so on. It certainly would encourage drivers to conserve, car pool, and combine multiple short trips into one "get it all done" trip per week.

grim

There is no shortage. There is no crisis.

Reward the conservationists... penalize the self-indulget and gluttonous. A sliding cost scale for the average citizen. Businesses would operate under a different schedule. The more you consume, the more you pay. Otherwise, those folks who do there best to conserve their energy usage are stuck paying the higher costs driven by those who increase the "demand" portion of the supply and demand equation.

That is how we got to this point today.

I would strenuously oppose any more artificial raising of prices. They are too high as it is.

Scale the taxes back!

Prices too high.....Taxes too high.......

Don't ruin it.