Why not increase the price of fuel to reduce global warming?

Question

Why not increase the price of fuel to reduce global warming?

Answer 1

so we now u wont be president anytime soon

haha

well pple ould pay  it b/c we have to get around where i live u cant walk anywhere!

u need a car!

there are no sidwalks!

  and everything is far away

...school alone is 17 miles away!

Answer 2

why not go tell the Sun not to be so hot!!!

Answer 3

the fuel now realllllllyyyyyyyy expansive.... but ppl still to buy it... its needed for our life

Answer 4

Of course increasing the price will reduce demand.  The problem is who increases the price.  Are you suggesting that oil companies arbitrarily increase it.  The market sets the price.  The government could tax it but the problem is that takes money out of everyones pocket.  Without money to spend, the economy begins to spiral downward into the toilet.

Answer 5

Increasing the price won't discourage people. It will only create a bigger demand and probably affect the whole world market. We use fuel to harvest crops, build bridges, and power our homes. If we raised price of fuel, then the prices of food, construction, and utilities would all rise, and we would have a massive attack of inflation.

Answer 6

Energy is the basis of our economy.  A rise in its price will trickle through the economy raising the price of everything else.  It aslo causes inflation which decreases the value of the money you have saved.  For individuals on a fixed income, this means they can buy that much less of everything.  Food will be more expensive.  So will rent.  So will fuel.  So millions more people will starve or they freeze.  Wonderful idea Einstein!!  For every problem there is a sure-fired solution that sounds great but ends up being a complete disaster.

Answer 7

See if they increase the fuel prices less people will be buying fuel which means in about 2 or 3 years after that there will be a plummit in things such as food and stuff because 50% of the prices that we earn from fuel will be gone!that means that 1 million dollars of the profits that the goverment uses to buy foods from other countrys wont be there.

Answer 8

Wouldn't do any good.  Global warming is a natural event on the Earth, and will occur regardless.  And overall global temperatures have declined since 1998, and the Arctic Ocean conditions are almost back to pre-1990's conditions.

Answer 9

But we need to find alternative for fossil fuels and methods for its cheaper and easy production.