Gas Price Gougers #&@%!

[Chuck52]

What I wrote was nothing more than the logical conclusion of what you wrote.

"If we could return our workers to homes closer to their workplaces it would save millions of barrels of oil daily. The way to make cities more desirable to our populance is too political for me to get into on this forum."

• Who is the 'we' who would return our 'workers to homes closer to their workplaces'?
• Who would 'make cities more desirable'?
• Who would define 'more desirable'?
• Who would fund this effort?

Answer: the gummint.

As Dan posted, this is nothing but government sponsored, taxpayer supported social engineering where a socialist bureaucrat has determined the greater good is better served by people moving back to the cities. Whether it's done by taxing people who want to live in the burbs or giving tax credits to people who move into the cities is irrelevant. It's the gummint doing it.

Well heck, Mike. If the gummint is to blame for everything, then the gummint must be to blame for the current model for American life, which seems to be an almost total dependency on individual transportation based on oil. Logical conclusion? Was that social engineering or did it just grow on us like a fungus. I remember reading a scifi short story years ago about an old man remembering the bad old past when the gummint had to decide between following a public transportation model versus individual freedom. In the story the old man was riding a tram with his granddaughter and there was a ruckus outside caused by a fella driving an illegal "jalopy". I think they shot the fella because he was breaking the law by having a private car. I suppose we could have it worse. The gummint might actually be effective, for instance.

Chuck

 

[dmccarty]

Once upon a time I live in an apartment that had a bus stop just across the street. The bus stop was all but on my front door. Pretty hard to beat the access. The bus route made one stop directly on the way to my work and dropped me off at the door to my building.

Pretty nice.

Only used it a few times and when I had too.

Why?

- I still had to pay for a car so the bus really did not save that much money.
- I lost 45 minutes a day riding the bus over driving.
- I had to leave work when the bus told me too. My job does not allow that sort of inflexibility.
- The bus did not cover my work hours when it was OT Time.
- Do you really want to hear about the smelling people on the bus?
- How about the people that I had to hear talking to themselves?
- Or about the really confined space on the van/bus that force me to touch people who STANK!
- Did I mention that the bus cost me 45 minutes a day!

And that was with dang near perfect bus service.

Later,
Dan

 

[Chuck52]

Yup. When I lived in town I could catch a bus to work with just a short walk at each end. It was cheap, and the schedule worked out OK. I still didn't do it, and I often had no good reason not to. There were the times when I figured I'd need to go somewhere after work, so why not just drive. Stuff like that. But the bottom line was I like the freedom to go where I want, when I want, and that trumped most everything. Will the cost of transportation ever get so high that many of us will really change in that respect? I hope not. I'm hoping we can come up with alternative energy sources for transportation that let us just keep doing what we like. Change hurts. Give me a plug in electric to get back and forth to work, and my life style and habits will hardly change at all, assuming I can afford to pay for the charges!

Chuck

 

[Taylortractornut]

Theres a fellow that bought a store near work where we get our gas for our little grader and other smaller machines at work. He went up th first hint of the storm and then this last one when prices went down a few cents he rationed like the others. No one supposedly had gas but I noticed him getting filled up as I was late leaving work and the tanker was there after dark. he kept the pums bagged for several days while the others had a few smaller loads deliverd. I noticed one of the Belmont big wheels pull up to the pump take off a bag fill up 22 gallons pay and leave. I mentioned to the lady at the counter a very nice lady and she told me that her boss told her to only sell gas to the wheels of the town and to tell others they didnt have any. She said all the tanks were full and to leave the pumps bagged till gas got to 5.27 a gallon. I cant belive this guy was gonna do that he removed the bags Friday morning most folks quit him. I had to pay for grader gas out of my pocket down the road but it felt better than to let the boss get ripped. He is being checked out by the authorities for raising the price of gas he already had in the tanks.