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Should gas prices go up to $10/gallon like many European countries in order to prevent unnecessary driving, promote carpooling, and more use of public transportation, and more use of hybrid/electric cars to save the environment?
America has among the cheapest gas prices in the western world.
No thank you.
American cities are not built for public transportation, not dense enough...
Its pretty obvious a far majority of the country prefers the car centric lifestyle and we can't just jack up the prices of their gas because you don't like their lifestyle.
$10 is a little high but higher gas prices would be good for America. Just have the government raise the gas tax and invest that money in infrastructure. Such an increase would have to be phased in slowly if not to cripple the economy.
America's problem is our oil dependency. Our entire economy is dictated by subsidizing large oil companies that stick their tentacles in our political process.
The government would squander that extra although limited tax receipts = I trust them with NOTHING!
Even without BIG Oil some new "tentacles" would then exist imho.
Do people realize that the costs of transporting goods would rise to if gas was 10 dollars a gallon? Of course that added cost would be passed down to the consumer.
Yup, not only does it cost more to get to the store, but everything inside is suddenly 300% more costly to ship. Not only that, but all of the machinery used to produce our food uses a lot of fuel. Tripling the cost of running a tractor, combine, irrigation wells, and farm trucks has to either get passed onto the farmer or down to the consumer.
My dad and brother are farmers and fuel is one of their biggest expenses. $10/gal would cause them to lose their farm, unless the price of commodities increased to offset the higher fuel prices (or more subsidies are handed down by Uncle Sam), which just increases the cost of food for everyone else.
FAR from it. You took all that "free" money for your college and complained when you didn't play the system right and ended up with a very small loan for your college education courtesy of the US taxpayers. My parents worked from the day they arrived in the US. My father was a professional and through hard work opened his own business, never taking a penny from the government via assistance.
Reading through just the first page of this thread, I have determined that the majority of the people posting in it haven't the slightest clue what the ramifications would be of such an increase, yet they're promoting it anyway. Small minds living in small bubbles. Sad.
Small bubble? Ha!
You're the one telling us to go move to other countries that we "try to emulate."
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Originally Posted by georgia dem
oh good grief
I sure as hell can not afford it and there are plenty more like me plus I have a cleaning and pet service
I have several clients and it would be stupid to think people like me could ride public transit or car pool
why don't you people think these things through????
oh I am sick of progressives!!!!
You'll live. If it is a business expense you will write it off. If you still have trouble making profit, you will make adjustments or go out of business.
What percentile is ''most citizens''? What do you really hate about being a citizen of the USA? Go ahead and divulge. You may want to move to your favorite socialist country in the future as we aren't going there any time soon.
I don't hate being a citizen of the USA. I do get annoyed by the amount of ignorance in this country from time to time. We aren't one of the smartest countries, despite swearing by it.
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Originally Posted by mike0618
What about us who drive for a living? We would be out of jobs.
If you are referring to truckers, I already addressed that.
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Originally Posted by Speleothem
I would venture to guess that those in favor of $10 gas don't drive much.
Who gets to define "necessary travel?"
My son drives about four hundred miles a week for work.
Work travel is a business expense. Your son will live. If that 400 miles per week is a standard commute, that sucks for him (poor life choice i.e. "not my responsibility").
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Originally Posted by GHOSTRIDER AZ
Oh Yea , That Liberal socialism Hard at work! Just think there are people who just want to be taken care and only work at Burger King for 40 years.
"typical conservatism hard at work" with ad hominems.
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Originally Posted by pnwmdk
Explain how my life is improved by having a LOT more money taken from me.
You have roads, water, clean air, police, military protection, and your children can get an education.
You're wrong. The price of gasoline is roughly equivalent to the price of gas in Europe and elsewhere. The difference you see at the pump is the difference in TAXES, not the price of the product.
European governments financially rape their citizens at the pump.
Gee, finally someone is heeding my earlier posts.
Oil prices are not gas prices. Gas prices are oil prices + taxes.
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Originally Posted by Opin_Yunated
No, the price of oil has an effect on everything. Oil =/= gas. We can increase the price of gas through policy. The price of oil is determined by the global market. They are not synonymous.
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Originally Posted by Opin_Yunated
Once again I repeat. Oil prices are not gas prices. Gas prices are are function of oil prices, not the other way around.
What causes New York to have higher gas than New Jersey? Why is off-road diesel less expensive?
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