Excuse me for living.
If the energy shortages of the 70s happened today, this country would collapse.
That was a shortage created by politicians.
They're trying very hard to recreate that today for some reason.
First of all, misquoting me was well, not an act based out of decorum.
And actually, no, nothing about what we are seeing right now is artificial. The only thing we can reasonably control is the federal gas tax. Worldwide supply and demand is what is causing our energy problems now. But it’s not as if the American public had nothing to do it. For 40 years, it has been a time honored tradition that, instead of trying to preserve a neighborhood, instead of putting in the effort to fight for where they grew up, people would just move farter and farther out.
The difference between today and 1975, besides the fact that music was much better back then, is that today, the majority of people live a good distance from where they actually work. Demand drives pricing, that’s just a fact. The public has to adjust to the fact thta, at least for the foreseeable future, gas is not going down in price anytime soon. The only thing that could cause the gas price to drop is if we saw the kind of political destablization in India and China that collapsed their economies, otherwise, high fuel prices are something we have to live with.
And actually, adjusted for inflation, we’re not to the point where we were in 1979, not yet anyway.