Reply #12: I sure hope the people voting "no" are considering the REAL cost here.....

[AntiCoup2K4]

.... High gas prices won't simply make freepers sell their Hummers and force the soccer moms to trade their Expeditions in for a Prius. They will raise the price of food, the price of shipping, the price of public transporation, the price of manufacturing anything remotely connected to petroleum (i.e. plastic, which is in damn near everything)

And who do all of these costs get passed along to?

The ones who drove the Hummers in the first place? Fuck no. They got tax write offs. To accompany the three "refunds" Junior gave them on taxes they never paid in the first place.

No, the costs are paid by those who can least afford it. And those costs could go even higher if more jobs are lost as a result.

So no gas price raises out of fucking vanity even if the "long range goals" are honorable. The costs are too high.

Better idea is to get the oil industry out of Washington DC and keep them out. Then prosecute the living shit out of these monopolisitc price fixing fascist shitheads until gas is again priced realistically. If the CEO's don't like it, fuck em. But no real alternative energy progress can take place until these greedy sons of bitches' influence over the government is destroyed.