Almost sounds good if you don't realize that our current society and way of life has molded folks to the point where buying gasoloine is no longer a choice. let's see you and your family stop buying gass for 2 months and then tell us how much choice you really have.
"Almost sounds good if you don't realize that our current society and way of life has molded folks to the point where buying gasoloine is no longer a choice."
You're right. They also have the choice to cut back on other spending. If people go out to dinner three times a month, they might have to go out to dinner once or twice a month.
If gas is too high, individuals have the choice to cut back on other things. That's the way a free market works. That's the way financially responsible people behave. That night you and your family stay home from the movies will probably save you the money to buy a tank of gas.
Stop acting like gasoline is a right.
The society that you have helped mold and the way of life you have chosen do require consumption of gasoline. That does not mean that you "have to" consume them, you have chosen it over the alternative. There are people who have opted out of the system, ride bicycles, grow their own food, go to bed when the sun goes down, etc. It is not a life style that I would choose, but the choice is available.
You imply that gasoline is a necessity. It is not. It is necessary to maintain the life style you have chosen, but it is not necessary to support life in itself. You would like to isolate gasoline from the total package of choices you make, but it doesn't work that way. You reap the benefit of fossil fuel consumption almost every minute of the day and it is not unreasonable that you pay market prices in return. But the bottom line is that you always have the choice. You just don't like the alternative.