Posted on 05/10/2006 7:54:36 AM PDT by SmithL
No wait, not 6. To hell with that. Make it 10. Ten bucks a gallon, no matter what the going rate for a barrel of light, sweet crude. That would so completely, violently, brilliantly do it. Revolutionize the country. Firebomb our pungent stasis. Change everything. Don't you agree?
Here's what we could do: Give gas discounts to cabdrivers (at least initially), metro transit systems and low-income folks, those who have to drive their busted-up '78 Honda Civics to their jobs scrubbing restaurant toilets and flipping burgers and vacuuming the residual cocaine from the seat cushions of numb SUV owners. Everyone else, 10 bucks a gallon, across the board. Eleven for premium.
It would take some finessing. Maybe also give a price break to some truckers and trucking companies (so vital to the economy), but not so much to global delivery companies (FedEx, DSL, et al), because that would force them to raise shipping rates and force you (and me) to reconsider buying everything online and hence encourage you to shop locally, thus reviving a stagnant local economy.
Voila -- gas crisis, oil crisis, warmongering agenda, pollution issues, road rage, traffic congestion, urban decay, oil profiteering -- all completely, almost totally, somewhat solved. Or at the very least, dramatically, gloriously shifted toward ... I don't know what. Something better. Something more humane, less greedy, more sustainable. Could it work? How outraged would you be to have to pay that much for gas? How long would that feeling last?
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`nuff said!
Meow!!
He really sends the fur flyin' on this one.
That's gonna leave a mark!
BTW, in his mind, WHERE does the $10 go after it is collected by the retailer????? WHO gets the money? How is it broken up/distributed? By what mechanism is the price RASIED to a uniform $10/gallon?
Oh, I forgot, those are rational questions.
By the way, this sort of thing might just happen, but due to market forces. Then we'll adjust, as usual...
A collapse of the world economy. What a genius. That is exactly what the Islamofascists want.
how bout instead we make san fran its own retarded country.
What about gays, illegal aliens, native americans?
Better yet just surcharge all white males.
He's really thinking about $10 an ass.
This rant is typical of the crap that is generated in Sodom and Gomorrah...err San Franciso on a regular basis.
When is the next "Big One" supposed to happen?
The end of the commuter Bay Area economy.
Want to cause a depression? Make gas $10 a gallon. What a schmuck.
Taxes, of course.
want to change the world? tax people triple who want to increase taxes.
Memo
To: Traffic Dept.
Subject: 2007 Lease agreement
Ann:
Cancel plans to proceed with leasing of Chrysler 300's for the sales force.
Investigate market for used '78 Honda Civics
This could result in a windfall savings for operations costs.
Let's make Vaseline $50 a jar instead.
"Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also teaches yoga, subscribes to magazines, admires trees, detests shrill alarmism (including his own),...."
To the government of course. Only the elite in Washington know how to best redistribute our money to the poor women, crippled children, and oppressed minorities.
Yea that Morford twit, he's so brilliant.
I'm sure I'll get to keep my job when the company has to shell out $2 per mile on travel expenses and a simple $300 airfare turns into $1,000 bucks.
But what the hey, Moron , er I mean Morford can keep his twit writing job and I can live on the Gov. dole as he shells out 85% of his income in taxes.
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