Gas rationing the answer?

Question

We have over 100 million SUV and Pickup gas guzzlers sucking up most of the gas every day which jacks up the cost of gas for everyone. Simple supply and demand.

So, would you agree to gas rationing if it would lower the price of gas by $2 a gallon? By $1 a gallon?

Answer 1

Bomb the middle east until they falter and we have COMPLETE control of this precious resource.  they can't handle the responsibilty so we must step in and take charge of this situation.  While we're at it, those Canadians have been jacking up the Maple Syrup cost on us for years... NO MORE SAP TAXES!!!

Answer 2

how about for the people who live in the middle of nowhere and have to drive long distances for work? i live in north dakota where it can snow up to 3 feet of snow at a time, where "gas guzzlers" are a necessity if you want to get anywhere.  my home town had a population of less than 150 people, and we had to drive 45 miles one way to get to the nearest grocery stores/hospitals/ etc.

Answer 3

This was tried in the U S during the Carter years. It does NOT work, only  makes things worse. We need to drill and refine our own oil until a better fuel is developed or discovered  that does not make the cost of food go up.

Answer 4

My sister drives a big SUV do to th fact she as a large family.  She neveruse it unless everyone is gong.  t would take four cars to get any where.  hich should se do drive the suv or take four cars.  Not everyone who drives suv do so to show off some do so becasue it takes less gas than anyting else.  The question may be mote.  So manyare trading thier suv's in for smaller cars or trucks.  RAtioning never makes anything go don.  Just ask someone around druing WW2.

Answer 5

No. most gas is used by semi's trucking goods you use.  We should not ration because we are a capitolist nation not comunists.

Answer 6

How about a horsepower tax?

Or reinstate the 55mph speed limit to get more scooters on the freeway?

Answer 7

we don't have a shortage of gas that is just what they want you to think so they can make us pay so d**n much for it

Answer 8

I would say to you FLAT TAX.

Or VAT.

So the government could soak up all of those billions and still hit us some more for a 1.00 pack of cigs,

or a $5.00 jug of Bourbon.

Gasoline is not the answer, cars have been running off of this stuff since , since, lets say 1910.

After 100 years I can buy all kinds of cool I-Pod stuff ( ETC, ETC ) but gasoline has only gotten lower and lower in potency.

The higher the potency of gasoline the better millage I can get from it.

Lets spend some more monies on E-85 so my millage per tank goes down 50%.

Oh you bet that helps the mandate, makes the policy makers look good, ( for a year ) .

So now that  ( I think it was Toyota ) anounced the double milage fuel-cell ( 500 ) miles, all of the investors in alcoholl plants are most likely running for the alternet stocks.

As soon as bitchen battery technology hits the market, you will see fossil fuel vehicles go exticent.

If it is like the projected gains in compurtor techonogy, battery tech. can olny be about two years away.