Reply #36: You say:

[Heddi]

Sure, not everybody can afford a Prius. But if you can afford a Ford F250 or an SUV, you can sure afford a Geo.

What about families that CAN'T afford a Prius OR a Ford F250 OR an SUV OR a Geo.

You are talking like all americans are rich and oil guzzlers by choice and they're the only ones that would be affected by higher gas prices.

I can't blame a poor family for driving a 1983 Crown Vic that gets 10mpg if that's all they can afford. I'm not willing to tell them to suffer because of assholes who use natural resources like they're quickly replenishable.

Not EVERYONE can bike to work. Not EVERYONE can motorcycle to work. Not EVERY city in America has public transportation.

The people who will be MOST affected are the people who are barely scraping by as it is.

It may be feasable, in a city where there is at least adequate public transportation, for someone (to whom public trans is their only option) to pay a current fare of $1.00 each way, but it's not necessarily feasable for them to pay $3.00 each way, especially if they're working poor and can barely afford the $1.00 fare to begin with.

Not every American is consumer-driven, oil-using louses. There are many people who have no option BUT to drive. BUT to heat their houses with oil.

There are Americans who have no option BUT to work in the transportation industry.

I"m not willing to say "Well, because alot of Americans are gas-guzzlers, then EVERYONE deserves to suffer and lose their jobs, pay more for products, pay more for gas, be unable to heat their house in the winter, etc"

THe people who will be punished the MOST are the people who can LEAST afford to be punished. The working-poor and poor will be devistated by this the most. They don't deserve to be punished b/c of rich assholes who own 3 hummers.