Boycot Fuel Week!!

"Lawson" wrote

IF the government was truly interested in helping, they's stop giving tax
breaks to oil companies, tax the crap out of gasoline and let it rise to
$10. Then maybe we'd use less, maybe. Addiction is a hard mistress, it
leads us to make poor choices and then justify them

Good way to have the economy to go tits up, immediately.

In case you didn't get the memo, there are people that have to burn gas.
People that haul construction equipment to build that house you live in.
People that haul food to the processor, to the distributors, and to the
grocery store. People that transport the computer that you bought and are
now using, and even before that, from raw material, to microchip, to
assembly, to transport it to the store you bought it from; it takes fuel to
make things and transport them.

I suppose you will not going to visit your relatives, that no longer live in
the same area that you now live in, as that would use more fuel, too.
Better plan on staying at home, and sitting in a cold dark room, (or a hot
dark room this summer) and not going out to eat, or to see a movie or a
play, either. That would be burning fuel that is not necessary. Forget
about eating meat more than perhaps once a week, because raising meat burns
a lot of fuel. Forget about sending the kids to college, because once you
have to pay for fuel at 3 or 4 times the cost, and increases in EVERY thing
that you buy, and your pay does not go up enough to reflect that amount of
increases in your budget, you will not be able to afford the tuition, or
room and board.

No, increasing fuel to many times its present cost is not the answer.
Everything we do depends on fuel, and if we suddenly don't have it, or can
not afford it, the way you have become accustomed to living will disappear
almost overnight.

I'm not saying that wasting fuel is a good thing, and that some changes
don't need to be made. I am saying that raising fuel prices many time
present cost is not the way to force conservation, unless you want to live
in a bankrupt economy. Prices as they are now, may have already sent forces
in action that will cause the economy to come crashing down on our heads.
It may be too late, already, to save ourselves from a deep recession.

So what do you say, Lawson? All that sound good to you? Or did you not
think that far ahead, yet?
--
Jim in NC